Catarina Lins was born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina in 1990. She is the author of Músculo (7Letras, 2015), Parvo orifício (Garupa, 2016), Na capital sul-americana do porco light (7Letras, 2018), and O teatro do mundo (7Letras, 2017), which was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize for Poetry in 2018. She was also featured among contemporary Brazilian poets in the anthology É agora como nunca (Companhia das Letras, 2017). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, and her next book of poems, Um bom ano para o milho, is forthcoming in 2021.