Miguel Augusto Egas Miranda, better known by his pen name Hugo Mayo (November 24, 1895 in Manta – April 5, 1988 in Guayaquil), was an Ecuadorian avant-garde poet.

[1] His most celebrated book is El zaguán de aluminio, which was first written in 1921 but published in 1982.

In the intro notes of the 1982 version, he wrote: "The actual originals of El zaguán de aluminio were lost a long time ago.

If some hypocritical reader has a copy of those old verses, may he forgive me if I am untrue, it is a thing of memory, of gone-by years, and of destiny.

"[2] The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics calls Hugo Mayo "one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.