Elisa Wouk Almino is a writer and translator from Portuguese. She was born into a Brazilian family, but traveled far and wide, to end up in Brooklyn. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Barnard College and an M.A. in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from New York University. She is currently working on an English translation of Paulo Leminski's poetry and is the associate editor at Hyperallergic.