Cristina Agostinho was born in Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais and majored in Law and Letters.

She has published eight books, five of them for youngsters on realistic themes like unemployment, divorce, prejudices, drugs, sexuality, losses and their reflects upon children and teenagers. For these books she received two national awards, the Golden Seal from the Brazilian section of the International Board on Books for Young People- IBBY, and one of them - "Suitless and Tieless Daddy" - was translated in Cuba. Her infant-juvenile literary experience turned out lecture during the 5th Nestle Bienal of Brazilian Literature in 1991.

After publishing "LUZ DEL FUEGO, The Crowd's Dancer - a biography which rescued from the shadows of prejudice and oblivion the star and nudist, founder of the first nudism colony in Latin America, the writer started a wider project turning her focus to Latin American feminine personalities. Through novel texts about life and work of women whose voices already belong to the universal culture, but haven't received the fair recognition from Brazilian readers, she wants to break the cultural blockage that still remains between Brazil and the Hispano-American countries.

For this project, she wrote "THE TWO FRIDAS", about the extraordinary and controversial Mexican painter, Frida Khalo, and has four other works in progress: Haydée Santamaría (Cuba), Violeta Parra (Chile), Afonsina Storni (Argentina) and Delmira Agustini (Uruguay).

On the other hand, Cristina Agostinho has developed institutional works on education and citizenhood. She made up two projects for the Legislative House of her native state: "The Constituent's Memory Game - 1989" and "The Junior Citizen Collection - 1995", which received the Public Opinion Award (1996) , from the Regional Council of Public Relation Professionals SP/PR and was selected by the Brazilian section of the International Board on Books for Young People- IBBY, for the catalogue of the Children's Book Fair of Bologna in 1996. She also conceived the book THE NEGRO ALPHABET - The Valuation of Black People in Daily School Life", for the Municipal Office for Black Community Affairs, in the city of Belo Horizonte.

In print she has a memoir book on the slums of the same city.