Kathleen de Azevedo’s novel, Samba Dreamers (University of Arizona Press) about Brazilian immigrants in Hollywood, won the 2007 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award, given to books which address human rights issues. As well, her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Américas, Boston Review, Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Green Mountains Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and TriQuarterly among others. She was born in Brazil and currently lives in San Francisco.