Bruna Mitrano

Bruna Mitrano was born in 1985, in the Senador Camará complex, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. She is writer, teacher and master in literature from Uerj. Daughter of street vendors, she read her first book of poetry at the age of seventeen, and was among the winners of the Off-Flip Award in 2010. Published Não (Patuá), her first book, in 2016. In 2023, it was released Ninguém quisver (Companhia das Letras), a work in which she delves deeper into her reflections on life on the margins and which consolidated her as one of the great revelations of contemporary Brazilian poetry. Her texts have been published in publications such as the portals Escamandro, Contemporary Brazilian Short Stories (Califórnia) and Ambrosia; the Portuguese magazines InComunidade, Tlön and Flanzine and the Brazilians Oceânica and Reversa; and in the newspapers Relevo and Plástico Bolha, among others. Participated in the anthologies Algum vazio nesta paz fajuta (Edital, 2014), Escriptonita (Patuá, 2016), Antologia Primata (Primata, 2018), Ato poético: poemas pela democracia (Oficina Raquel, 2020), and Versão brasileira: a voz da mulher [47 poemas sobre a independência] ((Teatro da Mente, 2023).