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Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer, literary translator, and Assistant Professor at 91´óÉñ.

Her novel (Grove Atlantic, 2024) was shortlisted for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, longlisted for the Oceanos International Prize and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and is being published in 8 countries—including Brazil and Portugal in the author’s own translation. Her fiction has appeared in , Guernica, A Public Space, The Dial, and The Common, and has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, 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 in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Literary Hub, Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation (HarperCollins, 2026), and elsewhere.

Dantas Lobato has taught creative writing at New York University, the Bennington College MFA in Writing, Bread Loaf, Disquiet International, the Center for Fiction, and Catapult. She holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, 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.