**Eliane Brum *is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her first work of nonfiction to be translated into English, The Collector of Leftover Souls *, was long-listed for the National Book Award. She lives in Altamira, in the Amazon.

**Eliane Brum *is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her first work of nonfiction to be translated into English, The Collector of Leftover Souls *, was long-listed for the National Book Award. She lives in Altamira, in the Amazon.

Diane Whittyhas translated over a dozen major books from the Portuguese, including* The Collector of Leftover Souls * by Eliane Brum. She spent twenty-three years in Brazil and now lives in Wisconsin with her husband.