Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the
Devil (Tor Books) and the poetry collection Mother/land(Black Lawrence Press), winner of the
Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press)
as well as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Witness,
and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers and has been awarded the
inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan publishers. She has
an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers
University, Newark. Her voice was praised as “singular and wise” (Cathy Park Hong), and Craft
was described as “wondrous” (Kevin Wilson), and “an absolutely thrilling reminder that short
stories can be the best kind of magic” (Kelly Link). Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in
Chicago.