Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (born March 27, 1937 in Belo Horizonte), is a Brazilian poet, essay writer, and professor.
He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer. In 1984, he began writing for Jornal do Brasil.