CAMILO PESSANHA (1867--1926) was a Portuguese writer who spent much of his adult life in Macau, a Portuguese colonial enclave at the time. The author of an enigmatic body of symbolist poetry, Pessanha has secured a unique legacy within the colonial Portuguese literary tradition.

ADAM MAHLER is a doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. The recipient of a Fulbright research grant, he has translated works from Santob de Carrión, Bernardim Ribeiro, Camilo Pessanha, and António Nobre.

K. DAVID JACKSON is professor of Luso-Brazilian literature and culture at Yale University. He is the author of Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa.