Alê Motta is a Brazilian architect and author of two collections of short stories, Interrompidos (Reformatório, 2017) and Velhos (Reformatório, 2020). She is a regular contributor to Vício Velho Magazine in Brazil. Her work has been published in Anthology of 14 Emerging Brazilian Writers (Mombak, 2015), and Qorpus: Brazilian Translation Club (University of Santa Catarina Press, 2020). Some of Motta’s short stories will be published in Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (HarperCollins, 2023).