ALEJANDRA BANCA studied literature at Andres Bello University in Caracas. Fleeing Venezuela's collapse, she emigrated to Spain and lives in Barcelona where she worked in several cold sales and hospitality jobs before establishing herself as an English teacher. Banca's poetry has appeared in various anthologies. From Savagery is her first book and is the winner of a PEN Translates Award.KATIE BROWN is a senior lecturer in Modern Languages at Exeter University. An expert on contemporary Latin American culture, she has appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Open Book" and is part of the women's UK, US, and Venezuelan translation collective, Colaboratorio Avila. Her translations appear regularly in the quarterly journal, Latin American Literature Today.

"From Savagery is not only a book, it's a global situation. . . Alejandra Banca is brave! . . . Some books sleep, others live, and others still create life." -Jan Queretz, Casapais."Banca's characters grab you by the heart and refuse to let you go. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed-an important and much-needed entry to the world's literature." -Jade Song, author of Chlorine."From Savagery asks that we hold . . . the broken pieces of the mirror that used to reflect and contain, as an impossibly coherent whole, what it meant to be Venezuelan, and find in the pain of the thousand cuts the determination to do more than just survive and to be more than just ruins. A beautiful, devastating, and absolutely essential masterpiece."-Irina R. Troconis, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Cornell University and author of the forthcoming book, The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution"From Savagery is an honest and delirious conversation between marginal and energetic characters, defeated but enthusiastic, ostracized but hopeful, crazed but determined to get ahead. Twelve round-trip stories, from here and from there . . . In these wild pages, Banca stirs the emotional memory of the immigrant, and among the tears, uncertainties, and concerns for subsistence, she finds traces of hope and tenderness."- Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles, author of The Lisbon Syndrome

ALEJANDRA BANCA studied literature at Andres Bello University in Caracas. Fleeing Venezuela's collapse, she emigrated to Spain and lives in Barcelona where she worked in several cold sales and hospitality jobs before establishing herself as an English teacher. Banca's poetry has appeared in various anthologies. From Savagery is her first book and is the winner of a PEN Translates Award.KATIE BROWN is a senior lecturer in Modern Languages at Exeter University. An expert on contemporary Latin American culture, she has appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Open Book" and is part of the women's UK, US, and Venezuelan translation collective, Colaboratorio Avila. Her translations appear regularly in the quarterly journal, Latin American Literature Today.

"From Savagery is not only a book, it's a global situation. . . Alejandra Banca is brave! . . . Some books sleep, others live, and others still create life." -Jan Queretz, Casapais."Banca's characters grab you by the heart and refuse to let you go. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed-an important and much-needed entry to the world's literature." -Jade Song, author of Chlorine."From Savagery asks that we hold . . . the broken pieces of the mirror that used to reflect and contain, as an impossibly coherent whole, what it meant to be Venezuelan, and find in the pain of the thousand cuts the determination to do more than just survive and to be more than just ruins. A beautiful, devastating, and absolutely essential masterpiece."-Irina R. Troconis, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Cornell University and author of the forthcoming book, The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution"From Savagery is an honest and delirious conversation between marginal and energetic characters, defeated but enthusiastic, ostracized but hopeful, crazed but determined to get ahead. Twelve round-trip stories, from here and from there . . . In these wild pages, Banca stirs the emotional memory of the immigrant, and among the tears, uncertainties, and concerns for subsistence, she finds traces of hope and tenderness."- Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles, author of The Lisbon Syndrome

ALEJANDRA BANCA studied literature at Andres Bello University in Caracas. Fleeing Venezuela's collapse, she emigrated to Spain and lives in Barcelona where she worked in several cold sales and hospitality jobs before establishing herself as an English teacher. Banca's poetry has appeared in various anthologies. From Savagery is her first book and is the winner of a PEN Translates Award.KATIE BROWN is a senior lecturer in Modern Languages at Exeter University. An expert on contemporary Latin American culture, she has appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Open Book" and is part of the women's UK, US, and Venezuelan translation collective, Colaboratorio Avila. Her translations appear regularly in the quarterly journal, Latin American Literature Today.

"From Savagery is not only a book, it's a global situation. . . Alejandra Banca is brave! . . . Some books sleep, others live, and others still create life." -Jan Queretz, Casapais."Banca's characters grab you by the heart and refuse to let you go. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed-an important and much-needed entry to the world's literature." -Jade Song, author of Chlorine."From Savagery asks that we hold . . . the broken pieces of the mirror that used to reflect and contain, as an impossibly coherent whole, what it meant to be Venezuelan, and find in the pain of the thousand cuts the determination to do more than just survive and to be more than just ruins. A beautiful, devastating, and absolutely essential masterpiece."-Irina R. Troconis, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Cornell University and author of the forthcoming book, The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution"From Savagery is an honest and delirious conversation between marginal and energetic characters, defeated but enthusiastic, ostracized but hopeful, crazed but determined to get ahead. Twelve round-trip stories, from here and from there . . . In these wild pages, Banca stirs the emotional memory of the immigrant, and among the tears, uncertainties, and concerns for subsistence, she finds traces of hope and tenderness."- Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles, author of The Lisbon Syndrome