ADO (Antonio Díaz Oliva) is the author of the non-fiction book Piedra Roja: El mito del Woodstock chileno, the novel La soga de los muertos, the short story collections La experiencia formativa, La experiencia deformativa and Las Experiencias; as well as the editor of the anthologies 20/40 and Estados Hispanos de América: Nueva Narrativa Latinoamericana Made in USA, in which he brings together authors who write in Spanish and live in the United States. He received the Roberto Bolaño Young Writers Award, the National Book Award by the National Book Council of Chile, and he was also a finalist for the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Award by The Gabriel García Márquez New Journalism Foundation. His journalism and essays have been published in Qué Pasa, Rolling Stone, La Tercera, Gatopardo, Letras Libres and El
Malpensante. He has been awarded fellowships from New York University, the Foundation for a New Ibero American Journalism (FNPI), Fulbright, and the Council for Culture and the Arts in Chile.