Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and translator of Brazilian literature.

[4][5] Her first novel, Blue Light Hours, was published in 2024 by Grove Atlantic in North America and will be translated into several languages.

[6][7][8][9][10] The Portuguese-language edition is forthcoming from Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras in her own translation with the title Horas azuis.

As a Youth Ambassador to Brazil, Dantas Lobato visited the White House, where she met Michelle Obama.

[14][15][25] Dantas Lobato currently serves on the board of directors of the American Literary Translators Association.