Regina Rheda

Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer currently living in Santa Cruz, California. She has been praised by critics and scholars from Brazil and abroad for her wit and originality. Her novels and short stories offer surprising, as well as lyrical, insights into a variety of topics, such as immigration, urban communities, sex, class conflict, and animal rights. Before becoming an author, she won many awards as a filmmaker. Most of her novels and stories have also been published in English.