Ruy Burgos-Lovece was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1957. His family moved to Venezuela when his father died in 1973. At the time, he was an exchange student in West Memphis, Arkansas. He joined his family in August that year. Eleven years later he arrived back in the US. Mr. Burgos-Lovece obtained a degree as a teacher of high school physics in 1980 in Venezuela. By 1987, he had an MA in French from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He taught high school Physics and French in Fort Smith, Arkansas until 1993. By 2001, he had a PhD in French Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1994, he started translating freelance and has been doing it assiduously ever since. In 2003, Dr. Burgos-Lovece was hired as a lecturer at UNC-CH. He currently teaches Spanish grammar, composition and translation at UNC-CH.