Bio

Óscar Preciado (Cali, Colombia) signs his work as Xscriptor, a name under which poetry, musical lyricism, digital painting and software development converge. His writing, indebted to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, springs from lived experience rather than fiction: a self-confessional voice that turns experience into literary matter and seeks to make the reader recognise themselves in it. He debuted in 2022 with Cielos de alquitrán (Tar Skies), a poetry anthology published by Editorial Círculo Rojo and described by Europa Press as a collection of texts with a whiff of nostalgia, followed by Primavera en el desierto (Spring in the Desert) in 2022 and Colaterales in 2024. As a developer, he maintains in parallel an open source ecosystem — web component libraries for React and Next.js, terminal tools in Rust, configurations for systems and editors, post-quantum cryptography — in which the precision of code and the sensitivity of the word pursue a single end.

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Career

• August 2022 — Publication of Tar Skies.
• October 2022 — Publication of Spring in the Desert.
• Sep 15, 2023 — Publication of Colaterales.
• Dec 2024 - 2025 — Participation in the publication of Poems Adrift, presented at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.
• 2025 — Creation of literary blog Reviews, Perspectives, Publications.
• September 2025 — Translation and publication of Asintota.
• 2026 — Publication of La danza de las amapolas. Translation into English and German of Boulevard, Spring in the Desert, Colaterales and Tar Skies.
• Present — Administration and development of papers and libraries in Science, Technology and Literature (Xscriptor, dev.xscriptor, Xliterato).