Zambra studied at the Instituto Nacional José Miguel Carrera, where he was president of the ALCIN (Academia de Letras Castellanas) and then at the University of Chile (BA in Hispanic Literature), a master in Hispanic Studies (CSIC, Spain) and a PhD in literature at the Universidad Católica. He is a professor of literature at the Universidad Diego Portales. He has collaborated with book critics and columnists in various newspapers such as Las Últimas Noticias (where he had the column Hoja por hoja for three years), El Mercurio, La Tercera and The Clinic and has also written for the literary supplement of Babelia de El País, the Spanish magazine Turia and the Mexican Letras Libres.
