Manuella Bezerra de Melo
Author of Pés Pequenos pra Tanto Corpo (“Small Feet for Such a Big Body,” Urutau, 2019), Pra que roam os cães nessa hecatombe (“May the Dogs Gnaw on This Hecatomb,” Macabea, 2020) and Um Fado Atlântico (“An Atlantic Fate,” Urutau, 2022). She organized the anthology collection VOLTA Para Tua Terra (“Go BACK to Your Land,” Urutau, 2021; 2022), has participated in poetic anthologies, including Um Brasil ainda em chamas (“A Brazil still in flames,” Contracapa, 2022), and has had poems and short stories published in literary magazines in Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and the USA. Her first book of essays is about the new brazilian poetry in the cycle of the 2016 coup and is currently being published by Editora Zouk. She has a degree in Social Communication with a specialization in Brazilian Literature, a master’s degree in Theory of Literature and Lusophone Literatures and is attending the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities at the University of Minho, in northern Portugal, where she has lived since 2017.
