This is Me!

I'm a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. I moved here with my husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

I write about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

My first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, my second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

I am a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

I write for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When I am not writing, I am walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling myself the exercise is the point.