Y el hombre dio su vuelta en 80 mundos...Homenaje a Julio Cortázar En busca de sor Edwina Marie Luis Aguilar Monsalve (born 7 October 1942) is an Ecuadorian writer, critic, and professor emeritus at Hanover College in the United States.

Born in Cuenca, Ecuador, Aguilar Monsalve studied extensively in the United States, where received a BA from Loyola Marymount University, an MA from Claremont Graduate University, and MA and PhD degrees in Political Science and Latin American Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He was also Professor of Latin American Literature, Political Science and International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito from 1995 to 2001.

He was also professor of Latin American literature and cultures at Hanover College from 2006 to 2016.

Aguilar Monsalve has published nineteen books of short-stories since 1986, some of them with several editions.