Florencia Bravo is currently a doctoral student at SUNY Buffalo who studies Victorian and Gothic literature, literary depictions of madness, and gender and ethnicity. She received a B.A. in English Literature at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) with a minor in Creative Writing in 2024 and was awarded the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Sally Casanova Scholarship.

Florencia is also a creative writer with a novel in the works. Her short story, “The Ocean Carries Your Voice,” received a third-place award from Santiago Canyon College’s Annual Writing Contest. Additionally, some of her other works have been published in Enjambed, California State University Dominguez Hills’ student-led literary journal. Florencia served as the lead editor of Enjambed her last year at CSUDH in 2024. Enjambed is a digital literary journal that is openly available here.

Florencia’s article, “‘Time is on my side’: Examining the Exploitation of Feminine Bodies through the Masculine Need for Immortality in Mexican Gothic and Dracula” appears in the Macksey Journal (vol. 5, issue 1, 2024) and is available to read here.