Annita Costa Malufe is the author of seven books of poetry namely, Alguém que dorme na plateia vazia (Someone Who Sleeps in the Empty Audience), Um caderno para coisas práticas (A Notebook for Practical Things), Quando não estou por perto (When I'm Not Around,), Como se caísse devagar (As if Falling Slowly), Nesta cidade e abaixo de teus olhos (In this City and Below Your Eyes), and Fundos para dias de chuva (Backgrounds for Rainy Days). She is also the author of two books of essays: Dispersed Territories: The Poetics of Ana Cristina Cesar and Poetics of Immanence: Ana Cristina Cesar and Marcos Siscar, both with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation. She is currently a researcher at the University of Salamanca. In Brazil, she is a Productivity in Research scholar at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and teaches in the graduate program of Literature and Literary Criticism at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).