Álvaro Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. He has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. He is the author of the novels La muerte de un instalador; El cementerio de sillas; and Vidas, perpendiculars; and the short story collections Virtudes capitales and Hipotermia. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City with his wife, the novelist Valeria Luiselli.