Writer, editor and literary critic born in Mexico City in 1969.

Álvaro Enrigue has spent his life between the Federal District and Washington D.C. He was for a time a professor of Literature at the Ibero-American University and of Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. Since 1990 he has dedicated himself to literary criticism, and has collaborated in magazines and newspapers in Mexico and Spain.

Upon his return to Mexico, after a brief period as literature editor of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, he became part of the Letras Libres magazine.