luciany aparecida

Luciany Aparecida_photo credit_Louise Queiroz

Luciany Aparecida is a Brazilian writer, born in 1982 in Vale do Jiquiriçá, Bahia. She holds a PhD in literature, and is a university lecturer in Brazilian literature and literary theory and criticism. She is co-founder and curator of the PANTIM Small press and Collective. She writes using three different aesthetic signatures: Ruth Ducaso, Margô Paraíso, and Antônio Peixôtro. She was awarded a creative writing grant from the Brazilian National Library Foundation / FUNARTE in 2012. In 2013, she was selected by the Bahian State Cultural Foundation (FUNCEB) for a creative writing grant, resulting in her book Contos ordinários de melancholia (“Ordinary tales of melancholy”) (ParaLeLo13S, 2017). In 2015, she was one of the writers-in-residence at the Sacatar Institute. She is also the author of the zine Auto-retrato (PANTIM Edições, 2018).


