Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is a Cuban writer from Havana.
He graduated from Havana University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. He published four short-story books in Cuba: "Collage Karaoke," "Empezar de cero," "Ipatrías," and "Mi nombre es William Saroyan." Elsewhere, Orlando has published the digital photo-book "Abandoned Havana" (Restless Books, New York, 2014), the book of narrative "Boring Home" (El Nacional, Venezuela, 2014), the anthology "Cuba in Splinters" (O/R Books, New York, 2014), and the compilations of his fictionalized chronicles "Del clarín escuchad el silencio" (Hypermedia, 2016) and "Espantado de todo me refugio en Trump" (Hypermedia, 2019).