Mercedes Halfon was born in Buenos Aires. She has published three novels, six poetry collections and one work of non-fiction. With Laura Citarella, she directed the film Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi (2019), which won the Best Director award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Silver Dove award at the DOK Leipzig Festival. She curated the theatrical cycle ‘Invocaciones’, held at the Centro Cultural San Martín and the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. She teaches in the Writing Arts programme at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and writes for the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, among other outlets. Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina is her first book to appear in English.