VALENTINA GINDRI is a brazilian writer and journalist currently based in Brazil, where she is working on a collection of short stories and contributing as a freelance correspondent for Deutsche Welle Brasil. She holds an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, supported by the Haddad Fellowship. In undergrad, she studied Journalism at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, spending a semester abroad at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and also took Creative Writing at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Her work includes four short stories published in independent collections in Brazil and a poem featured in Icarus Magazine.