Javier Etchevarren (Montevideo, 1979) is the author of the poetry books Desidia (Yaugarú, 2009) and Fábula de un hombre desconsolado (Yaugarú, 2014). Fable of an Inconsolable Man, a bilingual edition of this book translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval, is forthcoming from Action Books. His poems have appeared in América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets (University of New Mexico Press, 2016).