Flávia Rocha is a Brazilian writer and journalist, author of four books of poems published in Brazil. The latest, Exosfera (Editora Nós, 2021), is also available in Portugal. She has an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University, and for 13 years was the editor-in-chief of Rattapallax, a literary magazine based out of New York City. In the area of film, she is the founder of Academia Internacional de Cinema (aicinema.com.br), a film school located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is the co-writer of the feature film Birds of Neptune (U.S. 2016), by Steven Richter, and of two other feature projects set to be produced in 2023. She was living in Lisbon, Portugal, for the past two years and is now back in the Pacific Northwest, where she has lived for more than 10 years.