Huáscar Robles is a writer and journalist from Caguas, Puerto Rico. He is the author of the novel Demonios (Secta de los perros, San Juan, 2022) and Puerto príncipes: temblemos todos, (La Cifra, México City), a nonfiction book on Haiti after the earthquake.

As a journalist, Robles covered Puerto Rico’s post-Hurricane economy, LGBTQ issues and climate change. He has been a corresponded before and after Hurricane María and has written about these topics for the New York Times, Orlando Sentinel and The Center for Investigative Journalism. He has lectured at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), NYU, Columbia University and the New York Law School; and commented for CNN and NY1 News.

NYU’s Temporales, Evento Horizonte, Chicago Tribune, and other outlets have published his fiction and essays. As an Op-Ed writer for Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día for a decade, he covered economy, immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.  His podcast Catatonia received praise by the LA Review of Books and he currently contributes reportages to CNN and other outlets. Robles was recently longlisted by The Masters’ Review Novel Excerpt contest.

Puerto Rico Under Water (Columbia University), The Country Under My Skin, Los silencios de Santurce, Portraits of Marassa, are some of his photo and multimedia work in the U.S. and Puerto Rico as well as the documentary The Invisible Coast, on Haitian merchants' struggle on Puerto Rico's Loíza town. 

He has participated with The Dart Center's Ochberg Fellowship, Center for Justice and Journalism's Urban Fellowship, AS220's Artist in Residence, and Brunetto's School cultural exchange in Brazil. His collection Country Under My Skin was acquired by Rhode Island's Historical Society's Permanent Gallery.  Robles has an M.F.A. from New York University. 

His current project is the hybrid novel The Penultimate Days on the intersection of the Caribbean, climate change and reggaeton.