Ana Paula Lisboa was born in
Rio de Janeiro in the late 1980s, the oldest of four children of black blue-collar workers. She started writing at the age of 14, and graduated from university in Portuguese Language and Literature. In 2011 she joined the Network for Youth Agency (
Agência de Redes Para Juventude). Starting as a territory mediator for the Rio de Janeiro
favelas of
Cidade de Deus and Borel, she subsequently worked as a methodology coordinator. In 2019 she participated in the 8th Outskirts Literary Festival (, or FLUP), held at the
Rio Art Museum. She was also involved in a book project –
Carolinas: A New Generation of Black Writers – growing out of FLUP's 2020 writing workshops, which were inspired by the work of Carolina Maria de Jesus six decades earlier. As part of the 95th anniversary celebrations of
O Globo in 2020, she joined other journalists to debate
political polarization and
democracy with
Rodrigo Maia and
Luís Roberto Barroso. ==Works==