Ananda Lima: A gifted storyteller shares her vision -- merging genres, languages, and cultures

A revealing interview with Brazilian-born poet and fiction writer Ananda Lima. Her poetry collection Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) won the 2020 Hudson Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks: Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019, winner of the Vella Chapbook Prize), Amblyopia (Bull City Press – INCH series, 2020), and Tropicália (Newfound, 2021 winner of the Newfound Prose Prize). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, The Common, and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. #anandalima #poetrylovers #fictionwriters #shortstories #poems #surrealism #sciencefiction #amblyopia #lazyeye #stories #storytellers #creativewriting #fictionworkshops #tropicalia #cannibalism #latinamericanfiction #brazil #expatriates #brazilianwriters #brazlilianfiction #brazilianpoetry #claricelispector #americanpoetryreview #kenyonreview