López Nieves created and is the director of the first Master's Program in Creative Writing of Latin America, at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, in San Juan.
During two year he wrote his column Byzantine Letters (Cartas Bizantinas) in the largest newspaper of Puerto Rico, El Nuevo Día.
In addition to its digital library function, the site houses numerous literary Internet forums, including one for the peer review of writings and the exchange of ideas for improving each other's work.
In August 2019 he retired from his job as professor after 30 years at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, where he had mentored many writers.
[1][2] His books The True Death of Juan Ponce de León (2000) and Voltaire's Heart (2005) have won the National Literature Prize.