Tatiana Faia (1986) grew up in Lisbon and lives and works in Oxford. She is the author of one book of short stories and three books of poems. Her most recent poetry collection, Um quarto em Atenas/A Room in Athens (Lisbon, Tinta da China Press, 2018), includes a number of poems in which myths and canonical cultural references are misplaced in contemporary landscapes, with a special focus on that of Greece. She holds a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature (Homer’s Iliad) and has translated Homer and Anne Carson into Portuguese. Her poems and short stories have been published in magazines and literary journals in Brazil, England, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States, and Lithuania. Throughout 2018 and 2019, she has collaborated with the European and Nordic Poetry Festivals, in the UK. She shares editorial responsibilities in the publishing project “Enfermaria 6” (Ward 6), which exists both as an online magazine and an independent imprint, with a focus on Portuguese and Brazilian poetry. Um quarto em Atenas was most recently published in Brazil (Macondo Press, 2019).