She started writing at the age of 13, and her first poems were published in
A Tribuna, a newspaper in the city of
Santos. She wrote for magazines and newspapers such as
O Malho,
Fon-Fon,
Careta and
Jornal das Moças. In 1948, she founded the "Casa do Poeta Lampião de Gás", a literary society that initially met in her own home. This society published a monthly newspaper, "O Fanal", of which she was the publisher. Her poetry is centered on the theme of love, usually treated in a quite innocent way, though some of her poems have a more erotic vein that caused some scandal at her time. Her last book,
Rapsódia Rubra - Poemas à Carne ("Red Rapsody - Poems Dedicated to Flesh"), reflects this trend, and its highly erotic poetry was particularly polemical at the time of its publishing. == Published books ==