Susana L. M. Antunes holds a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is the Portuguese Program Coordinator and teaches Language, Literature, and Culture of the Lusophone world. Her research interests include travel poetry, Macaronesia island Literature, Ecocriticism, and short fiction by women authors from the Lusophone world.
Brazilian author and journalist Lucrecia Zappi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1972 but she spent her childhood and adolescence in São Paulo and Mexico City. Zappi is the author of two novels i...