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Ana Cristina Ferreira Pinto Bailey was born and raised in the Santa Teresa district, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1960. She began to write poetry at the age of nine years old. In 1977, she moved with her family to Brasilia, where she graduated from the University of Brasilia in 1982, with a BA in English.
During her college years, she was on the editorial board of Revista Navégus de Arte e Cultura (Návegus. Review of Art and Culture), for which she wrote some editorials and articles on cultural events, and in which some of her poems appeared. She has lived in the United States since 1983. She holds an MA (1984) and a PhD (1989) in Brazilian and Spanish-American literatures from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she attended plenty of Jazz Fests and Mardi Gras parades. She has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1994, and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Texas State University - San Marcos.
Her major fields of research are Latin-American women's literature and feminist criticism, and she has published numerous essays in academic journals in Brazil, United States, Puerto Rico and Spain, on writers such as Clarice Lispector, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Antonio Callado, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Rubén Darío. Some of her poems have appeared in journals in New Orleans, California, and Texas. She collaborated in the two REBRA anthologies, Talento Feminino em Prosa e Verso I and II. Her first book of poetry, Poemas da vida meia (2002) was published by 7Letras Press in Rio de Janeiro. Married, she has two daughters, Nina Clara and Ana Camila, and three cats, Kiki, Scott and Caleb.
