Tiffany Higgins is a poet, translator, and journalist. She is the author of And Aeneas Stares into her Helmet, on the Iraq War from a citizen’s perspective, The Apparition at Fort Bragg, which explores whether trees look back at us, and the translator of Alice Sant’anna’s selected poetry collection, Tail of the Whale. She is translating the writing of Lívia Natália and Itamar Vieira Junior of Bahia. Her reportage in Granta describes the Munduruku people’s fight to demarcate their territory in the face of proliferating hydroelectric dams in Brazil. In 2017 she was a resident in the Banff Centre’s Frontline Environmental Reportage residency.