A dual citizen of Portugal and the U.S., Susana Santos Martins holds a Ph.D. in English from Boston College. Her essays have appeared in Frontiers, Science Fiction Studies, and American Studies, and she has published short stories in The Broadkill Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Same, Gulf Stream Magazine, and Open to Interpretation: Water’s Edge, a juried collection of photographs, poetry and prose. She recently completed a novel about a nudist camp in Weimar Republic–era Germany. She is working on a new novel that takes place in Portugal and Angola during the dictatorship of António Salazar.