Carolina Simionato is a Brazilian writer, farmer and musician. Carolina’s fiction writing has been supported by the Kenyon Review, Seventh Wave and Curtis Brown Creative’s Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Writers of Colour. Carolina also attended the Tin House Winter Workshop and is currently working on a novel.
Carolina (they/she) grew up on a small farm in a Landless Workers’ Movement settlement in the southern Brazilian countryside. They graduated from UNILA (Brazil) with a bachelor’s degree in literature, arts and cultural mediation, which focused on Latin American literature and decolonial theory. Carolina then lived in Germany for five years before returning to their home state of Paraná. Through the exploration of each character’s individuality and interiority, Carolina’s writing investigates larger themes such as colonialism, capitalism and identity.
carolina simionato / soft verges 