Brazil, Non-fiction, Fiction

Júlia Irion Martins

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Júlia Irion Martins is a Brazilian-American translator and scholar. She is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at New York University-Shanghai and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Digital Studies from the University of Michigan. Irion Martins began her translation work as a a pro-bono translator for Freedom House Detroit, where she translated testimonies and clerical documents from PT-EN for asylum cases. Irion Martins now focuses on literary translation. She is the translator of Bianca Santana's Jabuti Award-winning book, QUANDO ME DESCOBRI NEGRA. She served on the editorial board of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation. Most recently, she guest edited Absinthe's first ever issue on Brazilian literature titled "Brazil With an S."