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Alejandra Banca was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1994. She earned a B.A. from Andrs Bello Catholic University in 2016. She made her debut in 2021 with two poems in UBICUO, published by Lecturas de Arraigo. Her poems were published in the third edition of Anthropologa de fuego (2022) and she received a digital publication mention in the Venezuelan poetry contest Ecos de la Luz, both from Ediciones Palndromus. From Savagery is her first short story collection. Katie Brown teaches contemporary Spanish and Latin American culture at the University of Exeter and holds a Ph.D. in Venezuelan literature under the Bolivarian Revolution from King's College London (2016). She is co-editor of Crude Words, an anthology of Venezuelan texts in English, for which she also translated six stories. She is part of the women's U.K., U.S., and Venezuelan translation collective, Colaboratorio vila. Her translations frequently appear in Latin American Literature Today.
"""Banca's characters grab you by the heart and refuse to let you go. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed--an important and much-needed entry to the world's literature."" -- Jade Song, author of Chlorine ""From Savagery speaks to the indomitable, rebellious existences of the flowers in the garden of an uninhabited house. These realities are characterized by their savagery, pain, and beauty as they continue to blossom despite the difficult circumstances that have plagued Venezuela in the last two decades."" --Andrea Sof�a Crespo Madrid, author of Tu�tano"
