Katherine Vaz is a Portuguese-American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University, a 2006–2007 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall 2012 Harman Fel

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun, first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabr