Natália Affonso

Natália Affonso is a translator, teacher, researcher and activist who sometimes commits (to) poems. She’s from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she created the award-winning literary salon Sapatão & Ficção. She studies Caribbean and Brazilian sexual-dissident literature and is interested in how these can make decolonizing love together. She’s pursuing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, where she is one of the head editors of Interversar, a graduate-student-run interdisciplinary Latin American Studies journal. Her translations of tatiana nascimento’s poetry appeared in Cuíer (Two Lines Press, 2021).