Marília Arnaud is a fiction writer from João Pessoa, the capital of the state of Paraíba, in the northeast of Brazil. Her short story collections have garnered several awards, and her stories have appeared in various anthologies. Read More Her novels Suíte de Silêncios [Suite of Silence] (2012), Liturgia do Fim [Liturgy of the End] (2016), and O Pássaro Secreto [The Secret Bird] (2021), have received critical acclaim. O Pássaro Secreto was selected from 2,400 entries as the winner of the 2021 Kindle Prize in Literature and has sold over 30,000 copies, an impressive figure in Brazil’s domestic book market. English translations of Arnaud’s short stories and book excerpts appear in Massachusetts Review, Columbia Journal Online, Exchanges Journal, Northwest Review, and Asymptote Journal.