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Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer, translator of Brazilian literature, and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ College.

Her debut novel, , was published in 2024 by Black Cat/Grove Atlantic in North America and is forthcoming in several languages—including Portuguese, in her own translation. Her fiction has appeared in , Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common, and has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, Disquiet International, and more.

Her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel won the . Other translations have received the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times Book Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Literary Hub, and Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation (HarperCollins, 2026), among others.

Dantas Lobato has taught creative writing at New York University, the Bennington College MFA in Writing, Bread Loaf, the Center for Fiction, and Catapult. She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU, an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, and a BA in Literature from Bennington College. Born and raised in Natal, Brazil, she lives in Iowa.