“Set during the difficult era of the Great War, The Devastation of Silence is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who, with no documents showing his rank, finds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry, constantly plagued by the sound of incessant detonations—and trying to finish his oral account of a strange story about a German scientist and voice recordings. In all this, he must seek meaning in his observations, his dreams, and, above all, silence.”

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“In a long, delirious monologue driven by bile and cocaine, a prostitute named Anúncia recounts the story of her life, remembering and sometimes inhabiting the men and women who left the deepest scars on her psyche—her absent father, her mentally disturbed mother, the son she never wanted, the parade of lovers like the poet and the philosopher—all the while drawing grand conclusions about the nature of sex, life, and death from her own experiences. In a world ravaged by pollution and unceasing war, the narrator's acid tongue condemns anyone who believes that filth and depravity have more to do with copulation than the misery inflicted by exploitation and inequality.”

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Wow wow wow! A dream come true to be published alongside some of my favorite translators and by my favorite publisher to boot! Order this collection of queer writing from Brazil from Two Lines to get a peek at Raimundo Neto’s “fresh and poetic prose” in my translation.

Took at stab at translating Galician with my co-conspirator Jacob Rogers for the March 2021 issue of Words Without Borders! Read Xurxo Borrazás’ “Of Children and Sphincters” here.

Incredibly humbled to have received a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Grant for my translation of Brazilian author Márcia Barbieri’s novel, The Whore, described by the star-studded judges’ panel as, “a striking, genre-bending, surreal work that demands to be read again and again.”

Couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of Sublunary Editions’ inaugural issue of their new magazine of considered miscellany, Firmament, which features an especially dark short story by Brazilian author and multi-award winner Carol Rodrigues, in my translation.

Super stoked to have a sample of my translation of Tiago Ferro’s The Dead Girl’s Father out in the “Hauntings” issue of my favorite translation journal, Two Lines!

Also big congrats to Tiago Ferro and this book for winning Brazil’s two most prestigious prizes, the Jabuti Award and the São Paulo Prize for Literature!