Luis Cruz-Villalobos, Ph.D. (Santiago, Chile, 1976) is a poet, psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer. He holds a Specialist degree and an M.A. in Adult Clinical Psychology from the University of Chile, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He served as a Presbyterian minister for nearly twenty years and, for two terms, as Southern Cone regional secretary of the Latin American Theological Fellowship.

He has taught at the graduate level in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile and at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Talca. He is a member of the advisory committee on Transformative Suffering at The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, and he has overseen the Latin American Spanish adaptation of the SPIRIT protocol for spiritually integrated psychotherapy, originally developed at McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He is Editor-in-Chief of the cultural criticism newspaper Cine y Literatura.

He has published more than 60 books of poetry and academic essays; within the field of psychology, his works include: Keys of Posttraumatic Coping; Psicología del Afrontamiento Religioso; Manual de Técnicas de Intervención Psicológica Individual; Psicología del Perdón; Hermenéuticas del Trauma; El Camino del Cambio; Emociones al Desnudo: arquitectura de las dinámicas emocionales; Focusing: escuchar la sabiduría del cuerpo; and Neurociencia y Poesía: cognición, emoción y salud. Part of his work has been translated into more than ten languages and has received international awards. In 2024, he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Tomitana Academy of Romania for his outstanding literary and cultural work. In 2025, he received Le Coq de Brâncuși, the highest distinction of the International Poetry Forum in Constanța, and also the ACC International Literary Prize from the Huiyu Cultural Association of Shanghai, “in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the creation and dissemination of poetry worldwide, as well as his exceptional contributions to promoting international literary exchange.”