Oliverio Coelho was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He is the author of the novels Tierra de vigilia (2000), Los invertebrables (2003), Borneo (2004), Natural Promises (2006), Ida (2008), A Man Called Wolf ( 2011, 3rd National Novel Award), Border Good (2015). He held writers' residencies in Mexico City, New York, and Seoul. His stories were published in various anthologies of Argentine and Latin American narrative. He was chosen by the English magazine Granta as one of the 22 best young Spanish-speaking writers.