Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey

Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey is a writer, scholar, and translator. She holds a PhD from Tulane University and has taught at several universities in the US and Brazil. Her English-language translations of Brazilian poetry and narrative by authors such as Conceição Evaristo, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Djamila Ribeiro, and others have appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Afro-Hispanic Review, Brazil: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, and other venues. She also translated and wrote the critical introduction to Maria Firmina dos Reis’s 1859 abolitionist novel Ursula (Tagus, 2021).