Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro

Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro is a writer, researcher, and translator born and raised in Curaçao. She is currently a PhD researcher in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) focused on the project “Performing Multispecies Justice in the Dutch Caribbean.” She has a Bachelor’s degree in Black Studies and English from Amherst College, in the U.S., and a Research Master’s in Literature from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where she focused on ecological relations in Papiamentu literature. Her work explores healing relations with the land and sea in the Dutch Caribbean and broadly across Latin America. Vieira Ribeiro also translates from Papiamentu, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch into English, such as in the recent publication Aan de rand van mijn eiland / Na rant di mi isla / At the edge of my island (Statia 2026). Her work engages digital and oral archives, community-based artistic research, and poetic translations and has been published in Archipelagos, Islands in Between, and PREE.