Ricardo earned a BA in Communication from Puebla’s Universidad de las Américas. He has written, edited, translated and designed for several literary magazines, newspapers and specialized publications in Mexico and abroad. He published a frequent column as well as culture review for El Economista newspaper 2002-2020, and anchored the movies and literature section for the Asomarte radio show in Queretaro. As a journalist, he covered numerous literary and cultural events across Mexico and also coordinated film, photography and creative writing workshops. In 2004, the cofounded the Una Vuelta de Tuerca Literary Award. As a writer, he won the 2001 National Rosario Castellanos Novella Award with Túnel; the 2002 National Fantasy and Scifi Short Story Award for Comin’o’age; and the 2020 National José Fuentes Mares Novel Award for Cuando te toca. He has published Túnel (2001), Transbordo (2002), and Cuando te toca (2008), and has been included in the anthologies Sólo Cuento V (2013) and Auroras y Horizontes (2012). His photography work has received awards, and been exhibited in, Mexico, the United States, Italiy, Germany, Finland and Iran, and was a jury member for Mexico’s 2021 First Stret Photography Yearbook. He lives in Querétaro since 1995.