Victor Heringer (1988-2018) was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was a writer and multimedia artist, and his first poetry collection, automatografo, was published in 2011, followed by his debut novel Gloria, which was awarded the 2013 Premio Jabuti. The Love of Singular Men was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Sao Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature, and the Oceanos Prize. Heringer was included by Forbes Brazil in their Under 30 in Literature- list in 2017. After his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his works and a complete anthology of his poems. James Young is a writer, translator, and editor from Belfast, Ireland.