Adélia Prado has authored eight volumes of poetry and seven volumes of literary prose in Portuguese. The first in her family of laborers to see the ocean or go to college, Prado has lived all her life in the provincial industrial city of Divinópolis in Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has degrees in Philosophy and Religious Education from the University of Divin[polis, and she worked for many years as a schoolteacher. She is the author of EX-VOTO: POEMS BY ADÉLIA PRADO (Tupelo Press, 2013), and The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), both translated by the poet Ellen Doré Watson.