Laura Assis was born in 1985 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil and holds a doctorate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She has published the poetry collection Depois de rasgar os mapas (After tearing up the maps), Aquela Editora, 2014; along with the chapbooks Todo poema é a história de uma perda (Every poem is a study in loss), Edições Macondo, 2016; and Mecânica de nuvens aplicada (Applied mechanics of clouds,) Capiranhas do Parahybuna, 2018.
Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013. He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.
Dean Thomas Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013. He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.
You ought to be here now writing another poem about walls and collapses or squeezing someone into the space in which I can no longer be You ought to be here now fetching yourself another life What do you all do on Sundays? What is it you don’t tell each other? What do you see when you close your eyes? You ought to be here trying to be happy in Sao Paulo, finding the trace of other frontiers or at least learning to cope with the shaky syntax of your own skin.
