She was born in the State of Sergipe where she did her primary and secondary schooling and started her involvement in literature, publishing poetry, chronicles and articles for newspapers. She had her first poetry book published when she was eighteen years old by a cultural foundation and participated in the creation of the poetry club of her state. She started her studies in philosophy at Belo Horizonte and concluded in Salvador (state of Bahia) where she also studied psychology.

Teaching and research were to become her main area of creation. She started her Masters of Psychology at USP (São Paulo), and she received her Doctorate at the University of Lyon (France) in January 1970 with a thesis about reading and writing. She did post doctoral training at the University of Paris in Etology (1985). She has successively served at the federal universities of Sergipe and Bahia, exerted administrative functions, coordinated studies and training, oriented and examined a set of thesis and dissertations in education and psychology and took part in movements and associations in this areas. She worked for national agencies, such as Federal Counsel of Education, CNPq, CAPES, INEP and SBPC, for whom she was Regional Secretary and Counselor. As a guest lecturer, she taught at the University of Nice (France).

When she published the novel JANE BRASIL (1986), she began her return to non-scientific literature, and she has now published her fifth novel. She was inducted into the Academy of Writers in the state of Sergipe in 1992. Now she lives in Maceió, Alagoas and has just published (2003) ROSA NO TEMPO (ROSE IN THE TIME), a collection of her poetry.

Notes about the published novels
JANE BRASIL (first ed. 1986) - "The loneliness, the fear and the anguish constitute the atmosphere of this dense/tense novel, centered in the Me, where the character, author of her own history, is narrating the facts that will be happening, sometimes in tone surrealist, in the search of a truth without limitations."

IBIRADIÔ (first ed. 1990) - "In this novel, the intrigue is developed in an objective double plan: the historical and the contemporary, with the presence of a cinematographer trio in the attempt to reconstruct happening of an outlandish past, from an up-to-date critical focus. There is a concert of varied voices and characters: the new and the old mixed fictionally." "This is a polemic book, of anger, of revolt and of a great love for justice and humanity."

PREPARE THE AGOGÔS (Preparem os Agogôs), first ed. 1996, Mention Honrosa in a national concourse of novel. In this novel the past and the present also interlace, the 19th century, with the slavery in Brazil, and the social problems of contemporary age. The character insistently persecutes the discovery of some truths, in the differentiated tangled interpretations that surround the human lives, when the actors of the dramas and tragedies are no more on the scene.

ACQUIT AND CONDEM (Absolvo e Condeno), first ed. 2000, Especial Mention in the prizes of Brazilian Union of Writers, 2002. This novel exhibit the conflicts of a Judge of Family Court with relationship to his work of judging but also to his relationship with a much younger woman than is the materialization of feelings that the Judge even had already forgotten. He ends up going to Japan, where he lives an unusual adventure, moments of anguish and of intense introspection.