A graduate in social sciences at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Jatobá holds a PhD in comparative literature from PUC-Rio with a thesis on the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes.

On his contribution to the anthology, Melanie Rae Thon wrote: "Mesmerizing, incantatory, Vinicius Jatobá’s ‘Still Life’ is an eighteen-page lyric poem, a single sentence spanning generations, a broken-open elegy vast enough to be a novel.

"[1] Since his inclusion in the Granta anthology, Vinicius Jatobá's short stories have been translated into English, Spanish, German and French, and published at World Without Borders,[2] Caminho, Ragpicker Press,[3] Wagenbach, and Schloss Post,[4] Párrafo Magazine, among others.

In 2012 Vinicius Jatobá won the National Literary Prize City of Belo Horizonte for his one-act play "First Love".

Also in 2021, Jatobá reimagined a scene from Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" for the project "Chöre des Spekulativen",[13] performed at Uferstudios Berlin.