Marilia Arnaud is an attorney and fiction writer living in João Pessoa, Brazil. Ms. Arnaud’s short stories have appeared in award-winning collections such as The Nocturnal Fields of the Heart (1997) and in anthologies such as Luis Rufatto’s edited volume 30 Women Who Are Making The New Brazilian Literature (2005) and Hugo Almeida’s edited volume Happy Birthday, Clarice (2019), in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Clarice Lispector’s birth. Arnaud has penned three novels: Suite of Silence, Liturgy of the End, and The Secret Bird, winner of the 2021 Kindle Prize in Literature in Brazil. Her stories appear in translation in The Massachusetts Review, Columbia Journal Online, Northwest Review, and Asymptote.