Yanko González Cangas (Santiago, 1971) is the author of Metales Pesados (1998, 2017); Héroes Civiles y Santos Laicos (1999); Alto Volta (2007; Upper Volta, translated by Stephen Rosenshein, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), which received the Critics’ Prize in 2008; Los Más Ordenaditos. Fascismo y Juventud en la Dictadura de Pinochet (2021), which won the Chilean Literary Works Prize and the Manuel Montt Award (2024), among others. Together with Pedro Araya, he co-authored Zurdos. Última poesía latinoamericana (2004/2005) and El Pequeño Chartier Ilustrado. Breve diccionario del libro, la lectura y la cultura escrita (2022), as well as El agua verde del idiota. Erratas: Cultura e historia (2023), awarded by the Circle of Art Critics in Chile. González holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, teaches at the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Austral University of Chile, and directs the university’s publishing house.