Luciany Aparecida

Luciany Aparecida was born in Bahia, in the Jiquiriçá River Valley, in 1982. She is the author of Mata Doce (2023), a novel that won the 2024 São Paulo Literature Award, was a finalist for the Jabuti Award, and a semifinalist for the 2024 Oceanos Award. She also wrote Macala (2022), a poem based on a 19th-century photograph. Under the pseudonym Ruth Ducaso, she published Contos ordinários de melancolia (2019) and Florim (2020), both by the parallel13S publishing label.