Jana Bianchi

Jana Bianchi is a Brazilian writer, translator, and editor from the countryside of São Paulo currently living in Rio de Janeiro. Her fiction in Portuguese, her native language, has appeared in several Brazilian magazines and anthologies, and Jana’s first Sci-Fi novel—Uma longa órbita—is forthcoming in 2026. In English, her work has been published before or is forthcoming at Uncanny, F&SF, Clarkesworld, and Tractor Beam, among others. She also attended Clarion West in 2021 and won the BSFA award for best translated shorter fiction from 2023. Together with her partner Diogo Ramos, she runs the Fantástico Guia, an organization that supports Brazilian speculative fiction writers who are writing and submitting their work in English.