Biographical data

Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta was born in São Paulo, in 1957. Poet, attorney, publisher and translator. Worked as chief researcher for the Brazilian Guinness Book of Records in 1992. Published Sun Dial (Relógio de Sol, 1980), Rice Paper (Papel Arroz, 1981), Tares & Wheat (Joio & trigo, 1982), Sands (Areal, 1995), Sabbath (1998), Dawn (Alba, 2001), Chiaroscuro – Poems in the dark (2002) and the poem-poster Tenth Moon (Décima Lua, 1983). Has translated novels and also poems by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John Keats, W. B. Yeats and Lord Byron. Among her unreleased books are Odysseus and Pandora’s Book, Lazuli, Love and Wings, Flamingo View, Spree, Pairs, Let’s, Shell to the Sea (translated poems) and Columbus. Lives in Rio, where organizes and takes part of poem readings in bookstores, theaters and cafés. Took part of the II International Meeting of Women Writers, in Rosário, Argentina, in August, 2000 and the 54th Conference on World Affairs, at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, CO., USA, in April, 2002. Founded Ibis Libris in 2000.