ALICE SANT'ANNA is a Brazilian poet, born in 1988 in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in journalism in 2010. At the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, she earned her Masters Degree in Literature and Culture (2013) and later a PhD in Literature.
In 2013, Sant'Anna was a visiting fellow in Comparative Literature at Brown University, Rhode Island, in the USA. From 2010 to 2016, she co-edited the Brazilian literary magazine Serrote. Since 2016, she works as an editor at the Brazilian publishing house, Companhia das Letras.
Her work has been translated into Spanish and English and she has been a guest at literary festivals in Sweden, Latvia, France, USA, and elsewhere.
With a poetic style that is colloquial, limpidly imagistic, and dreamlike, Sant'Anna follows in the path of Brazil's "marginal generation" poets of the 1970s.
Her books of poetry include:
Dobradura (2008),
Pingue-pongue (2012),
Rabo de baleia (2013) – won the 2013 APCA Poetry Prize from the São
Paulo Art Critics’ Association and published in English as Tail of the Whale with translation by Tiffany Higgins (2016), Ilha da decepção (2014), Vinhetas (2015), Pé de ouvido (2016), and Speak low (2021) – translated by Eric MB Becker.
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