Patricio Ferrari (b. 1975) grew up in Merlo, Buenos Aires, to Piemontesi and Calabresi immigrants. At 16, he left Argentina to attend high school and play soccer in the U.S. through the Rotary Exchange Program. During nearly a decade in the U.S., where he earned a BA in Philosophy and French, he also attended the Collège International de Cannes in France. Ferrari later traveled extensively in India, exploring the Hindi heartland and the Andaman Islands.

In 2002, he moved to Paris, where he earned an MA in Comparative Literature from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. A pivotal encounter with the works of Fernando Pessoa led him to Lisbon, where he spent the next decade transcribing Pessoa’s unpublished writings, editing several of his books, and completing a PhD in Linguistics from Universidade de Lisboa.

Ferrari has published twenty books, including The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik (with Forrest Gander; New Directions, 2018), The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa (with Margaret Jull Costa; New Directions, 2023) and Habla terreña [Field Talk] by Frank Stanford (with Graciela S. Guglielmone; Pre-textos, 2023). His poetry has appeared in Fence, Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Southwest Review, and other publications. Since 2017, he has lived in New York City, where he teaches in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. He speaks seven languages (Spanish, Italian, English, French, Portuguese, German, Hindi).