An Index of Brazilian SFFH Writing in English

Dante Luiz
11 min readJul 25, 2020

Below is an attempt to list all (or most) Brazilians who have published speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction in English.

For the sake of simplicity, I restricted the index to Brazilians born or raised in Brazil, and am only including original work published directly in English that went through an editorial process, which means no translations that have been published first in Portuguese (simultaneous publications on both languages are ok), no reprints, and no self-pub. In non-fiction, I’m adding solo essays, articles and columns, but no reviews, personal blog posts, interviews, round-tables, etc. Columns will be listed as a singular item in the author’s list, and same-publication short essays/articles will be treated as columns. I’m also not adding Twitter-sized microfiction, or comics.

The reason I created this index was to have a better understanding of the presence of Brazilians in the English-speaking SFF market, and I’m making it public so anyone who wants to research can use it as well. Bear in mind that I haven’t read all of these stories, so I cannot attest the quality of all of them — this is for archival purposes only.

If you know someone who is not on this list, or have recently published a new story/article, feel free to send me the proper information in the comments, and I’ll be happy to add it!

A — E

ALCÁZAR, CESAR
Short Fiction
“Wolves” (Sword and Sorcery Magazine, 2014)
“A Lonely Grave on the Hill” (Heroic Fantasy Online, 2013)

ALVARENGA, AMANDA NUNES
Short fiction
“Please Open This Let­ter While I’m at Work” (Eita! Magazine, 2021) *Brazilian magazine

ARAGÃO, OCTAVIO
Novelettes
“The Last of the Guaranys” (The Worlds of Philip José Farmer: Portraits of a Trickster, 2012) — With Carlos Orsi

Non-fiction
“Brazilian Science Fiction and the Visual Arts: From Political Cartoons to Contemporary Comics” (Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice, 2012)

ARRAES, JARID
Poetry
“movement” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

BARCIA, JACQUES
Short Fiction
“To Dive Into a Godling, Where Life Begins” (Electric Velocipede, 2012)
“The Siege of Dr. Vikare Blisset” (The Immersion Book of Steampunk, 2011)
“Salvaging Gods” (Clarkesworld, 2010)
“The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up, Up” (Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science-Fiction, 2010)
“A Life Made Possible Behind the Barricades” (Web exclusive for Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, 2010)

BERNARDO, RENAN
Novelettes
“A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” (Samovar, 2023)

Short Fiction
“The Throat of San Dante” (Planet Scumm, 2023)
“The Dog Star Killer” (Life Beyond Us, 2023)
“Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital” (Solarpunk, 2023)
“Great-Granny Bethany’s Memories of Space” (Future SF, 2022)
“The Walking Mirror of the Soul” (Apex Magazine, 2022)
“Shoreline of Oil and Infinity” (Escape Pod, 2022)
“Bedlam and Rebellion in Vilerma” (Mafaverna, 2022) *Brazilian magazine
“You Blossoms of Their Seeds” (Wyldblood Magazine, 2022)
“Curselifter” (Dark Recesses Press, 2022)
“The Small Shop of Me” (Daily Science Fiction, 2022)
“The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge” (PodCastle, 2022)
“Look to the Sky, My Love” (Solarpunk, 2022)
“The Whittler” (Translunar Travelers Lounge, 2022)
“Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives” (Apex Magazine, 2021)
“Premium Resurrection Pack $99” (Simultaneous Times, 2021)
“When It’s Time to Harvest” (Imagine 2200, 2021)
“Callis Praedictionem” (Dark Matter Magazine, 2021)
“The Time Traveler’ Delivery” (Simultaneous Times, 2021)
“Even Though You’re No More” (Three Crows Magazine, 2020)

BIANCHI, JANA
Short Fiction
“52 Hertz” (Bourbon Penn, 2023)
“Deep Blue Neon” (Life Beyond Us, 2023)
“Raindrop Doughnuts for Women Raining Inside (Translunar Travelers Lounge, 2022)
“Dead Matter” (City in a Wild Garden: Stories of the Nature of Cities, 2021)
“Not Quite What We’re Looking For Right Now” (Fireside Magazine, 2021)
“Death Is for Those Who Die” (Clarkesworld, 2020)

Non-fiction
“The State of Play of Brazilian SFF” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

BRONTOPS, BARUQ
Short Fiction
“Story with Pictures and Conversation” (Orson Scott’s Intergalatic Medicine Show, 2012)

CALÁCIA, GABRIEL
Short Fiction
“The Oddish Gesture of Humans” (Clarkesworld, 2020)

CALIFE, JORGE LUIZ
Non-fiction
“Science Fiction in Brazil” (Locus Mag, 1985)

CAMARGO, SAREN
Short fiction
“Granny’s House” (Eita! Magazine, 2020) *Brazilian magazine

CASTRO, FERNANDA
Short Fiction
“Calypso’s Heart is Both Storm and Calm” (Kaleidotrope, 2023)
“Passing Season” (City in a Wild Garden: Stories of the Nature of Cities, 2021)

CASTRO, GABRIELA
Short Fiction
“The Living Album” (City in a Wild Garden: Stories of the Nature of Cities, 2021)

CAUSO, ROBERTO
Non-Fiction
“Notes on Science Fiction and Fantasy in Latin America” (Inter Nova, 2010)
“Discovering and Re-discovering Brazilian Science Fiction: An Overview” (Extrapolation, 2010) — With M. Elizabeth Ginway
“Encountering International Science Fiction Through a Latin American Lens” (Reading Science Fiction, 2009)
“A Brazilian Metafiction: Paulo de Sousa Ramos’s Dystopian Novella” (New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, 2008)
“The Anxiety of Influence” (Altair, 2000)
“Brazil” (Around the World in a Dozen Pages or So …, 1995)
Column at Locus Mag, 19892020 *linked the ISFDB bibliography, plus the oldest and newest articles available online
Part of the “Curiosities” column at Magazine of F&SF, 2005–2009 *linked the ISFDB bibliography

Short Fiction
“The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” (Frontiers/Fronteiras, 1998)
“Save the Wolves” (ConAdian Souvenir Book, 1994)

DINIZ, G.G.
Short Fiction
“Mycelysis” (Strange Horizons, 2022)

CHRISTÓFARO, LU
Poetry
“I See You” (Strange Horizons, 2021)

DISMUKES, WOODY
Novel
Abicus Blues (Audible.com, 2022)

Chapbook
The Way the Cowries Fall (American Poetry Journal, 2020)

Short Fiction
“A Good Morsel of Clay” (Shoreline of Infinity, 2022)
“Solace of the Keeper” (PodCastle, 2021)
“A Cast of Liches” (Nightmare Magazine, 2020)
“My Children’s Home” (Lightspeed Magazine, 2019)

Poetry
“Said the Carrion to the Corvus” (Star*Line Magazine, 2020)
“Zumbi” (Star*Line Magazine, 2020)
“Fugitive” (Star*Line Magazine, 2020)
“After Having Eaten From the Apple” (Star*Line Magazine, 2020)
“Sweet Home, Sweet Home” (Star*Line Magazine, 2020)
Zombie of Palmares” (FIYAH Magazine, 2020)
“The Color of the Mule” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)
“A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

Non-fiction
“Afrofuturism, Utopia, and the Prospect of a Better Now” (Speculative City, 2020)
“The Anatomy of a Transracial Child” (Apex Magazine, 2019)

DRACUL, MIGUEL
Short fiction
“Arrows in the Air” (Eita! Magazine, 2020) *Brazilian magazine

F — J

FERNANDES, CAMILA
Short Fiction
“The Best of the Three” (Orson Scott’s Intergalatic Medicine Show, 2017)
“The Other Bank of the River” (Orson Scott’s Intergalatic Medicine Show, 2014)

FERNANDES, FABIO
Collections
Love. An Archaeology (Luna Press Publishing, 2021)

Novellas
“Under Pressure” (NewCon, 2022)

Short Fiction
Hinoeuma” (IZ Digital, 2023)
A PSA for Time-Travelers” (Daily Science Fiction, 2019)
“The Emptiness in the Heart of All Things” (American Monsters Part. I, 2018)
“Other Metamorphoses” (People of Color Destroy Science Fiction, 2016)
“Mycelium” (Perihelion Magazine, 2015)
“Eleven Stations” (Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, 2015)
“Ganesh, in the Afternoon” (Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention, 2014)
“The Unexpected Geographies of Desire” (Kaleidotrope, 2012)
“The Remaker” (Outlaw Bodies, 2012)
“Edgar Can’t Stand It” (StarShip Sofa, 2010)
“Nothing Happened in 1999” (Everyday Weirdness, 2010)
“The Boulton-Watt-Frankenstein Company” (Everyday Weirdness, 2009)
“Semiotic Smoke” (Everyday Weirdness, 2009)
“The Arrival of the Cogsmiths (oil on canvas, by Turner, 1815)” (Everyday Weirdness, 2009)
“Who Mourns for Washington?” (Everyday Weirdness, 2009)
“Ghosts” (Everyday Weirdness, 2009)

Non-fiction
“How to Write like a Queer: A Letter to Myself” (Strange Horizons, 2016)
“The New Brazilian Science Fiction: Post-Scarcity Blues” (International Speculative Fiction, 2012)
Column at Tor.com, 2010–2020
Column at SF Signal, 2011–2013
Column at World SF, 2009–2013

FERREIRA, ILLIMANI
Novels
Terminal 3 (Möbius Books, 2020)

Novelettes
Trial of the Bull” (New Myths, 2019)

Short Stories
Platinum Venus” (Decoded Pride Anthology, 2022)
Pandora 4” (The Needle Drops, 2021)
Equatorial Ice” (And Lately, The Sun, 2020)
The Serpentine City” (Hybrid Fiction, 2020)
“Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal” (Unidentified Funny Objects 8, 2020)

GARCIA, RAPHAEL TSAVKKO
Non-fiction
“Must Read Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books From Brazil” (Tor.com, 2020)

HAPP, DEBORAH
Non-fiction
“Encanto Understands the Overwhelming Pressure Put Upon Latin American Women” (Tor.com, 2022)

HARA, LUKE H.
Short fiction
“A Bard’s Sorrow” (The Mythic Circle, 2022)

JÚNIOR, WILSON
Short fiction
“Free Womb” (Eita! Magazine, 2022) *Brazilian magazine

K — O

LAGE, THIAGO AMBRÓSIO
Short fiction
“The Witch Dances” (Eita! Magazine, 2020) *Brazilian magazine

LIBERTON, ANNE
Poetry
“ode to the sword” (Heartlines Spec, 2023)

LODI-RIBEIRO, GERSON
Novelettes
“Patriotic Crimes” (Frontiers/Fronteiras, 1998)

Short fiction
“Dear Father” (Sinning in Sevens/Pecar a Sete, 1999)
“Patriotic Crimes” (Frontiers/Fronteiras, 1998)
“Secondary Mission” (Side Effects, 1997)

LORICCHIO, CAMILA
Short fiction
“The One Where The Day Was Stolen” (The Secret Livez, 2022)

LORIGGIO, THIAGO
Short fiction
“Paulie Coiner” (Daily Science Fiction, 2022)

LUIZ, DANTE
Novelettes
“Ingredient Nº 5” (Undercities Anthology, 2017)

Short Fiction
“Colonia del Sacramento’s Little Tailoring Shop” (Professor Charlatan Bardot Travel Anthology, 2021)
“My Mother’s Hand” (Constelación Magazine, 2021)

Non-fiction
“Bunnies” (Nightmare Magazine, 2022)
“Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death” (Nightmare Magazine, 2022)
“If you can come to brazil…” (Future SF, 2021)

MADRIGANO, CLARA
Novelettes
“Lost in Darkness and Distance” (Clarkesworld, 2020)

Short Fiction
“The Gold Coin” (Nightmare Magazine, 2022)
“Into the River” (Professor Charlatan Bardot Travel Anthology, 2021)
“Wife to the Wind” (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology, 2021)
“The Screaming Tree” (The Dark, 2021)
“Little Doors” (The Dark, 2021)
“There, In the Woods” (The Dark, 2021)
“She’s Back” (Halldark Holidays, 2020)
“Driving With Ghosts” (The Dark, 2020)
“Mother Love” (The Dark, 2020)

MANDARINO, ALEX
Short Fiction
“The Eye That Ate The Sky” (Miseria’s Chorale, 2013)

MARTINO, ANNA
Short Fiction
“A Memory Like a Talon” (Luna Station Quarterly, 2023)
“Once Measured, Twice Cut” (GigaNotoSaurus, 2023)
The Dance, Unveiled” (Aanx, 2022)
Manjar dos Deuses” (Clarkesworld, 2022)
Jackadee” (Hexagon Magazine, 2022)
This Stitch, This Time” (Clarkesworld, 2021)
Dashing, Through the Spaceship” (Luna Station Quarterly, 2021)
Haja Hoje” (Strange Horizons, 2021)
Feathers, Silk, Sea, Sky” (Abyss & Apex, 2021)
Two of Our Kind” (Upon a Once Time, 2020)
“Between the Librations” (Once and Future Moon, 2019)

Non-fiction
Personal Canons: Jules Verne” (Here’s the Thing, 2020)

MARTINS, GABRIELA
Short Fiction
Blood-stained Hands Like Yours” (Our Shadows Have Claws, 2022)
Who’s Afraid of the Pink Fairy” (A Heart Well Traveled, 2017)

MEDEIROS JR., FLÁVIO
Short Fiction
By a Thread” (Orson Scott’s Intergalatic Medicine Show, 2012)

MELO, MARINA
Short fiction
“How to Deal with In­con­veni­ent Guests” (Eita! Magazine, 2021) *Brazilian magazine

MENDES, JOÃO
Short Fiction
“The Apprentice with the Thousand Eyes” (Mafaverna, 2022) *Brazilian Magazine

MESQUITA, RODRIGO ASSIS
Short Fiction
“Soul Searching Search Engines” (Future SF, 2019)

MONTENEGRO, LUÍSA
Short fiction
“The Alien’s Feast” (Eita! Magazine, 2022) *Brazilian magazine

MORAES, BÁRBARA
Non-fiction
A Digression About Storytelling” (The Book Smugglers Quarterly Almanac Vol. 4, 2017)

MOTTA, SÉRGIO
Short Fiction
“Spider” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

MURAKAMI, GIU YUKARI
Short Fiction
“What The Sea Made Me Leave Behind” (Rikka Zine, 2022)
“Through Batchan’s Hand” (Eita! Magazine, 2022) *Brazilian magazine

NOCIA, CARLOS
Short Fiction
“The Workshop for (a torturer’s) Utopia” (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2019)

N‘THANDA’, OGHAN
Short Fiction
“The Path to the Future” (Omenana, 2022)

ORSI, CARLOS
Novelettes
“The Last of the Guaranys” (The Worlds of Philip José Farmer: Portraits of a Trickster, 2012) — With Octavio Aragão

Short Stories
“Last News” (Professor Charlatan Bardot Travel Anthology, 2021)
“The White Monkey” (A World of Horror, 2018)
“The Argonaut” (Sword vs. Cthulhu, 2016)
“In Loco” (War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, 2014)
“The Machine is Yellow” (Rehearsals for Oblivion Act I, 2006)
“Baal-Zabub” (Nightscapes, 2002)
“Pilate Blindfolded” (Nightscapes, 2000)

ORTIZ, MARLON
Short fiction
“Mnemonic Longings” (Magazine of F&SF, 2021)
“Nobody Lives Here” (The Dark, 2020)“Wyrm-Fall” (Wyrms: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles, 2022)
“Services” (Future SF, 2022)

P — T

PROSPERO, ISA
Novellas
“The Book of the Living” (The Fantasist, 2019)

Short Fiction
The True Story of a Kartenian Soldier in an Enemy Land” (Mafaverna, 2022) *Brazilian magazine
Seasons” (Timeless Tales, 2020)
“Replacement” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)
“And They Will Come” (Stories of the Nature of Cities 2099, 2019)
“Amends” (Impact Anthology, 2018)
The Artist of Enclosure 601-A” (All Borders Are Temporary, 2018)

POHL, LAURA
Novels
The Wicked Remain (Sourcebooks, 2022)
The Grimrose Girls (Sourcebooks, 2021)
The First 7 (Sourcebooks, 2020)
The Last 8 (Sourcebooks, 2019)

Short Fiction
“The Queer Life and Times of Kassandra Assis” (Omni Magazine, 2021)

PORTELA, R.R.
Short Fiction
“Over the Mountains, Towards Windvill” (Mafaverna, 2022) *Brazilian magazine

PUEYO, H.
Collections
A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias (Lethe Press, 2022)

Novelettes
“The Language of Insects” (Future SF, 2022)
“Saligia” (Samovar, 2019)

Short Fiction
“Glory Hounds” (Interzone, 2023)
“Crawling Back to You” (Kaleidotrope, 2023)
“Belly-Slitter” (The Dark, 2022)
“Worker’s Song” (Mafaverna, 2022) *Brazilian magazine
“This Body Is A Grave” (Orion’s Belt, 2022)
“The Many Murders of the Self” (The Dark, 2022)
“A Letter, Unfolding” (580 Split, 2022)
“Sealed With a Kiss” (Bourbon Penn, 2022)
“Death Republic” (Horror Library Vol. 7, 2022)
“We’re Always the Ones Who Leave” (The Dark, 2021)
“Juan Clemente’s Well” (Professor Charlatan Bardot Travel Anthology, 2021)
“Cocoon” (Strange Horizons, 2021)
“Green, Yellow, Red” (khōréō, 2021)
“A Study in Ugliness” (The Dark, 2021)
“The Diamond Family Glitters” (Magazine of F&SF, 2021)
“Nobody Lives Here” (The Dark, 2020)
“Flowers of Cerrado” (Augur Magazine, 2020)
“A Bitter Orange Perfume” (Fireside Magazine, 2020)
“Young Witch, Old Witch” (Mithila Review, 2020)
“It Gets Blacker” (Unnerving Magazine, 2020)
“An Open Coffin” (The Dark, 2019)
“Ajé” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)
“Catch-a-Boitatá” (Helios Quarterly Magazine, 2019)
“Water Bearer and the Hawk King” (Lackington’s, 2019)
“I Eat” (Sharp and Sugar Tooth: Women Up to no Good, 2019)
“Paula” (Apparition Lit, 2019)
“Ox, Ox, Ox” (Gender Terror, 2019)
“What the South Wind Whispers” (Clarkesworld, 2018)
“Sea-Crowned” (The Dark, 2018)
“Perseu on Two Wheels” (Broken Metropolis, 2018)
“Adentro” (Capricious, 2018)
“Three Dancing Princes” (Iridium Zine, 2018)
“Eva” (The Colored Lens, 2018)
“The Wing Collector” (Mad Scientist Journal, 2017)
“The Headless Mule” (Flapperhouse, 2017)
“The Granate Theatre” (Secrets of the Goat People, 2017)
“Lupercalia” (Eternal Haunted Summer, 2017)
“Cricket Swing” (Bourbon Penn, 2016)
“Mama Cuca” (Luna Station Quarterly, 2016)

QUINTIERE, ISABOR
Short fiction
“The Prokaryotes’ Serenade” (Eita! Magazine, 2020) *Brazilian magazine

SANTOS, ALE
Short Fiction
“The Color of Your Eyes” (Cautions, Dreams & Curiosities: The Tomorrow Project Anthology, 2013)

SANTOS, KALI DE LOS
Short Fiction
“High Hopes” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

SANTOS, SANTIAGO
Short Fiction
“A Carpet Sewn With Skeletons” (American Monsters Part. I, 2018)

SETZ, RAQUEL
Short Fiction
“O cio da terra (The Earth in Heat)” (Solarpunk, 2022)

SOUZA, ÁLEX
Short fiction
“Metallosis” (hyphen punk, 2021)
“Invisible Bodies” (hyphen punk, 2021)

SOUZA, LAIS DIAS DE
Short fiction
“BURN.IN” (Eita! Magazine, 2020) *Brazilian magazine

TAVARES, BRAULIO
Non-fiction
“João Guimarães Rosa’s “A Young Man, Gleaming, White” and the Protocol of the Question” (Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice, 2012)
“Camp Concentration at The Reading Gaol” (The New York Review of Science Fiction, 2009)
“Stories of the Will-Happen: Science Fiction in Brazil” (Foundation, 1999)
“The Void: From Borges’s Being to Perec’s Nothingness” (The New York Review of Science Fiction, 1997)

TEIXEIRA, FERNANDA COUTINHO
Short fiction
“Hers” (Strange Horizons, 2023)

TOSCANO, FREDERICO
Short fiction
“Buchada” (Eita! Magazine, 2022) *Brazilian magazine

U — Z

V., VICTORIA
Short Fiction
“Vó Úrsula’s Magical Shop for Soul-Aches” (Luna Station Quarterly, 2020)

Non-fiction
Column at Luna Station Quarterly, 2020–2021

VIEIRA, VIC
Non-fiction
“Our Hyperdimentional Mesh of Identities” (Invisible 3, 2017)
“Art is Our Weapon” (The Book Smugglers Quarterly Almanac Vol. 3, 2017)

VILAS BOAS, LIS
Short fiction
“A Wish Upon a Fish” (Seaborne Magazine, 2022)
“Cephalopod Heart” (Hexagon Magazine, 2021)

VINHOLO, RODRIGO ORTIZ
Short fiction
“The People of the Missing Recipient” (Rikka Zine, 2022)

VIOLETA, MORANA
Short fiction
“The Cat” (The Dark, 2022)

VOLPATO, CADÃO
Poetry
“Amsterdan 94” (Samovar, 2018)

VOZNIAK, VITÓRIA
Short Fiction
“For Those Who Stay” (Rikka Zine, 2022)

ZEN, HEITOR
Short Fiction
“Progression” (Strange Horizons — Brazil Special, 2019)

(Last updated on March 2023)

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