Camila Santos’s work has appeared or is upcoming in the New York Times, Columbia Journal, Ruído Manifesto, Minola Review and Coletânea de Poesia – Mulherio das Letras, EUA. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translations from Queens College and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts and Soaring Gardens. In 2020, she was named a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She grew up in Recife, Brazil and has lived in Queens since 2004. She is currently working on her first novel and a collection of short stories.