Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa was born on April 25, 1970, in Rio de Janeiro, where she has spent most of her life. She has also resided in France and presently divides her time between Rio and Boulder, Colorado, in the United States. She studied music and literature. She was a singer, a flutist and a teacher. Presently, besides writing fiction, she is also a translator and sometimes a poet. Adriana Lisboa published the novels Os fios da memória (The Threads of Memory), Sinfonia em branco (Symphony in White), Um beijo de colombina (Colombine’s Kiss) and Rakushisha, a book of short stories, Caligrafias (Calligraphies) and three books for children and young people: Língua de trapos (A Tongue Made of Scraps), O coração às vezes pára de bater (The Heart Sometimes Stops Beating) and Contos populares japoneses (Japanese Popular Stories). She had her short stories included in many anthologies, in Brazil and abroad. Her books have been published also in Portugal, Italy and Sweden, and are being translated in France and Mexico. She received the Jose Saramago Award in Portugal, and, in Brazil, the Outstanding Newcomer of the Year Award from the National Foundation of Books for Children and Youths (Brazilian section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People), as well as the Moinho Santista Award (Bunge Foundation). She also received literary and translation grants from Brazil’s National Library, France’s Centre National du Livre, and the Japan Foundation. In 2007, in commemoration of UNESCO’s election of Bogotá as the World Book Capital City, the Bogotá 39 Project selected her as one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine.   Among other authors, she translated into Portuguese books by Cormac McCarthy, Anne Tyler, Amy Bloom, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Émile Faguet. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, the same position she held at the University of New Mexico in 2007. Adriana Lisboa is represented by Mertin Literary Agency, founded by Ray-Güde Mertin and presently directed by Nicole Witt.