Ricardo Domeneck is a poet, essayist, and short fiction author, born in Brazil in 1977. He has published 10 collections of poetry and 4 volumes of short fiction in Brazil and Germany. As a performance and sound poet, his work has been featured in museums and institutions in Europe and Latin America. He has collaborated with musicians such as Tetine, Anika, Kreidler, Lea Porcelain, Ghosts and Errors, Nelson Bell, and artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Heinz Peter Knes, Adriano Costa, and Alcino Fernandes, among others. His Selected Poems have been published in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and most recently in the United States with World Poetry Books, translated by Chris Daniels. He has been awarded the Jabuti Prize and the National Library Prize for Poetry in Brazil. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.