Patrick Autréaux (b. 1968) is the author of dozens of books, mainly published by Gallimard and Verdier, and articles in French in Europe, Esprit, NRF, etc. His novel In the Valley of Tears was published by UIT Books in 2019. His essays appear in Socrates on the Beach, Asymptote, 3:am magazine, Sublunary Editions, Black Herald Press, and AGNI. Recently, Pussyboy (Verdier), a novel about an erotic passion, was translated into Spanish. He has been a fellow at the Dora Maar House (Nancy Brown Negley Foundation), at Passa Porta (Belgium), and has been writer-in-residence at Boston University and MIT. His new novel, L’Époux, was released by Gallimard in 2025.