Juan Carlos Vásquez was born in 1972 in Valencia, Venezuela. He has contributed to several collective volumes and anthologies, including Paseo en Versos (Pasos en la Azotea, Df México 2006); Hemiparesias (Visceralia Ediciones, Santiago de Chile 2006); Poesías y aparte el Libro y su Autor, Creaciones Literarias, selection by Betty Goldman and Enrique Epelbon, United States 2007, and in the artistic project Mirages from an Unreal World by Laura Orvieto, Author House (New Jersey, 2010). He was selected to be part of The World's Greatest Letters 2021 Anthology, a bilingual English and Spanish anthology. He has also been a member of the cultural groups Spanic Attack (New York, 2004) and The Hall (Miami, 2001).

He is the author of several short story books, including Pedazos de familia (Ediciones Estival, 2000); Vulnerables (Amazon Media EU S.à r.l... Ed. Filatel 2019); Ward's Island, an autobiographical account of his life in New York (2001-2006); and Colapso. Poesía reunida (1999-2022). His poems and short stories have appeared in various literary publications, both digital and print, in Europe and Latin America, such as Barcelona Review, Babab, Canibaal, and the newspapers La Razón and El Impulso.

Juan Carlos has received distinctions in the poetry contests pro linguistico and multimedia Premio Nosside (Calabria, Italy), in the 2005 and 2006 editions. He was also a finalist in the microrrelato contest "Guka" in Buenos Aires in 2018.

Vásquez moved to Florida in 1999. Since then, he has lived in Tampa Bay, San Francisco, New York, La Coruña, Barcelona, Bocairent, and other cities in the United States and Spain. Translation - English Corner JC's