Miriam Alves

Miriam Aparecida Alves (born 1952) is a Brazilian writer, activist and poet.

Biography Alves was born in São Paulo. She began writing for pleasure at the age of eleven and would later rewrite material from her personal notebooks for publication. She earned a degree in Social Work and worked as a social worker for the city of São Paulo. She was inaugurated into the Municipal School for Professor Miriram Alves of Macedo Guimaraes in March 2016.

Travels She traveled to the Portuguese school at Middlebury College in 2010 where she taught culture and Brazilian Literature classes. Due to her heavy influence with Quilombhoje literature, she was a special visitor to the University of New Mexico. She also participated in debates about Afro-Brazilian literature and feminism at the University of Texas, the University of Tennessee and at the University of Illinois. Due to her international travel she is a part of movements like the Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary Movement in the United States; Moving Beyond Boundaries: International Dimension of Black Women's Writing in England; and Black Poetry in Germany.

She was once a guest speaker at the International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars at the Florida International University in 1996. She also gave talk titled A Invisibilidade da Literatura Afro-feminina: de Carolina de Jesus a Nós” at the Latin American Speakers Symposium in New York in 1997. She also presented her work called Resgate in Vienna, Austria in November 1995. Her works have been translated to English and German. Momentos de Busca was a collection piece made from all of her poems from her adolescence to then. Her other works include: Brazilian Women Writers: Dual Brazilian-English Poetry Anthology, published in Colorado, USA (1995) and "Women Righting - Afro-Brazilian Women's Short Fiction", Short stories (2005).

She was co-author with Arnaldo Xavier and Cuti (Luiz Silva) of a play Terramara (1988). Along with other books like Brasilafro Autorrevelado (2010) and Mulher Mat(r)iz in 2011.