Tanya Pérez-Brennan

Tanya is Colombian-American and spent part of her childhood in Brazil. She received her BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Boston, an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in Creative Writing & Literature from Bennington College. She has worked extensively as a journalist covering the Latino and Brazilian communities in the U.S., along with immigration policy and Latin American/Latino music and art. She has also worked as a certified Spanish interpreter for the Massachusetts Trial Court, a medical interpreter, a freelance translator, and an adjunct professor teaching interpreting, translation, and Spanish at Regis College, Babson College, and Harvard University. Her research interests include collective trauma and cultural trauma in Colombian and Brazilian literature, Latin American female authors, and Latino/Latinx writers in the United States.