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About Me
My writing career started when I was 4 and run my own “newspaper”. It wasn’t much about news, as you can guess. It featured what I imagined as the adventures of the cats in my neighbourhood, the struggles between strays and pets.
In school, I was the short girl at the very end of the classroom, so I could write stories when I should be taking notes.
Thanks to this strategy, I wrote a young adult novel when I was 13, consulting with psychologists and lawyers, turning my classmates into beta readers. It has never seen the light of the day, and, probably, it never will.
But it encouraged me to send my stories to the world – and one was published in an anthology, and another was awarded a second place in a competition.
Thankfully, despite the amount of time I spent writing in class, my grades remained good enough to get me into university. Creative Writing degrees weren’t available in Brazil, so I got a Bsc. in Communications with a major in Journalism, the next best thing.
For many years, fiction wasn’t part of my life. I was a journalist, then a public relations executive and a marketing manager. The writing was still there daily, but, no, it wasn’t the same. The closest I got to my passion was when a non-profit organisation commissioned me to write a book celebrating their 40th anniversary.
In 2010, I moved to Ireland, a land of so many talented authors and Nobel Prizes of Literature. My desire to write fiction returned with all power, and I joined the Irish Writers Centre’s New Irish Communities group.
There, I met aspiring and published writers with English as their second language. It gave me the incentive I needed to get back into writing. Eventually, my sabbatical turned into permanent residence, followed by Irish citizenship.
In 2020, I also joined Writing.ie’s Writers Ink VIP group, a community where I’ve found even more support.
Since then, my work has been published by Poetry Kit, Époque Press, Pendemic, and Diáspora. Most of my stories in English mixes Brazilian and Irish culture. They are seasoned with feelings of living abroad, cultural clash, and the search for the real meaning of home and citizenship.
I continue my writing journey, creating poetry and short stories, doing my best to overcome the limitations imposed by having English as my second language. Meanwhile, I still create and manage content for businesses – see my freelancer’s website.