Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguau, Brazil, 1977) is an author and scriptwriter who has published several novels, includingO habitante das falhas subterrneas(2003), and the 'Saga of Brutes' trilogy whichcomprisesEntre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos(2009),O trabalho sujo dos outros(2009) andCarvo animal(2011). De gados e homens(2013), translated for Charco Press as Of Cattle and Men by Zo Perry (2023) won the UK Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023 as well as the inaugural Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation in the US. Maia also won the So Paulo Literature Prize for Best Novel of the Year two years in a row: in 2018 for the novelOn Earth as it is Beneath,and in 2019 forBury Your Dead , forthcoming from Charco Press in 2027.