Raquel Jardim is a writer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Born to migrants from the semiarid region, she learned from a young age how to live in the liminal spaces between alienation and belonging, poverty and wealth. A taste for the contradictory and complex led her to leave home at sixteen to pursue high school in Latvia, where she found her love for anglophone literature. Now an undergraduate in the United States, she is exploring her own writing voice through her working novel Canteiros, an epistolary work spanning migration, folklore, and syncretic faith in Brazil. In her spare time, she writes snail mail and maintains an online newsletter to update her friends across the world.
