Bruna Dantas Lobato (Natal, Brazil) is a Brazilian writer and literary translator based in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Common, and other publications, and has been recognized with fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, and Disquiet International. Bruna holds a BA in Literature and Social Sciences from Bennington College, an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She regularly teaches at Catapult, serves on the Board of the Directors of the American Literary Translators Association, and works as a freelance editor and translator.