Ricardo Cárcamo Livacic was born in Chile in 1960. After studying literature at the Catholic University of Valparaíso from 1979-1985, he has dedicated the majority of his time to the shipping sector. He is currently operations manager for South America Super Yacht Support Services. He has also published a book of poems called Texto sentidos (1991), worked ad honorem as the consular secretary to Norway, was a freelance journalist for the newspaper La Nueva República, and was a marathoner and ultramarathoner. In spite of these activities he has never ceased to be a loyal follower (and reader) of Juan Luis Martínez.