Lucrecia Zappi (Buenos Aires, 1972) is a journalist, translator and writer. Her childhood was divided between São Paulo and Mexico City. She studied Visual Arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. On her return to Brazil, she worked for various specialist art publications. She illustrated Gavino Ledda's classic 'Padre Padrone' (Berlendis & Vertecchia, São Paulo, 2004). In the field of visual arts she has curated exhibitions such as Empty House/CasaVazia about Brazilian post-constructionism, which took place in New York in 2015. She is the author of 'Mil-folhas' (CosacNaify, São Paulo, 2009), which won a prestigious Bologna Ragazzi prize in 2011. She has translated several children's books from Dutch to Portuguese. She has lived in New York for almost a decade. Whilst there, she has completed a Masters in Creative Writing at NYU with E. L. Doctorow, who you ...