Max L. Lacayo

Max L. Lacayo, poet, storyteller, economist and columnist, was born in Managua, Nicaragua. He immigrated to the United States in 1979 as a political refugee. Lacayo was educated in New Orleans, where he obtained a postgraduate in Economics. He has experience in the oil industry, teaching and writing. And he has a passion for the arts and politics. He writes opinion articles in La Prensa, the principal Nicaraguan newspapers and occasionally in La Tribuna, a Honduran newspaper. He worked as Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Economic Sciences while attending the University of New Orleans and as Instructor of Macroeconomics at the Houston Community College (1995) and recently created an economic indicator –The Lacayo Instability Index–. He enjoys painting and invents mathematical games. In 2009 Max L. Lacayo published two books: a screenplay, The American Ambassador and a poetry book, My Bare Essence. In 2010 he published Tinta Invisible, a romantic story written in verses. And in October 2011, his 3,000 verses poem El Poeta y la Paz was published. In 2012 he produced La Seducción de los Sueños, a collection of short stories. In 2014 he released Cuentos Hispanoamericanos de Ayer, an anthology of Hispano-American short stories. Also in 2014, he coauthored an anthology of Nicaraguan short stories, Cuentos Nicaragüenses de Ayer y Hoy. Most recently, he issued the second edition of The Lacayo Instability Index (2015).