Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four works of creative nonfiction, most recently Third Floor Walk Up: Notes from Lisbon, and a children’s book. Her essays have appeared in journals like Granta and Literary Hub, and on news platforms like Público, Jornal de Negócios, Mensagem de Lisboa, Antena 1, and BBC World Service. Her writing has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fondation Jan Michalski (Switzerland), Art Omi (USA), the Danish Centre for Writers and Translators (Denmark), and Fundación Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), among others. One of the editors of the literary magazine Mamute, she also writes for cinema. She lives in Lisbon with her two daughters.
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