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Bruna Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil. A graduate of Bennington College, she received her MFA in Fiction from New York University and her MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her stories, essays, and translations from the Portuguese have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, A Public Space, BOMB, Words Without Borders, The Common, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her translation of Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries has received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and is forthcoming from Archipelago Books.