Rosa Alice Branco is a poet, essayist, translator and researcher at [ID+] the Institute of Design, Media and Culture of the Universities of Aveiro and Porto and with IPCA. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Contemporary Philosophy) and is a Professor of the Theory of Perception at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design) in Porto. She  is a poet, essayist, researcher in the fields of Neuropsychology of Perception and Aesthetics, translator and cultural curator. She has 13 books of poetry in Portugal and books of poems published in the USA, Italy, Brazil, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Quebec, Tunisia, Spain, Venezuela (collected work) and Corsica, as well as poems published in magazines and anthologies in almost all languages. She has also published five books of essays, four in Portugal and one in Brazil, on perception in nature and the arts. In 2017, her book of fictional essays, Il mondo in italiano/O mundo em italiano, was published in a bilingual edition.She was the poet who represented Portugal in London at the "Poetry Olympics" in 2012. Her book Cattle of the Lord was considered one of the 12 best poetry books in the USA (by The Chicago Review of Books) in 2016, which earned her a tour with readings and debates at several universities in the USA in 2018. That same year, her book of poems - Traçar um nome no coração do branco - was published by Assírio & Alvim. In 2022 he published the poetry book Amor Cão e outras palavras que não adestram (Assírio & Alvim) and the essay on Design: As cores das coisas: viagem pela natureza e pelos objectos (Contraponto). Her book Amor Cão e outras palavras que não adestram was awarded the António Cabral Literary Prize / 2023 by the A. M. Pires Cabral Literary Guild. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Meeting "Cinema and the Other Arts", held at the University of Beira Interior. She’s Member of the European Academy of Design. Rosa Alice Branco has published in Portugal twelve volumes of poetry, including her collected poems, Spelling Out the Day. Recent collections include The World Doesn’t End in the Cold of Your Bones, 2009, Cattle of the Lord, winner of the Espiral Maior Prize in Galicia, 2009, republished in Portugal in 2011, and Live Concert, 2012. Collections of her poetry have appeared in Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Corsica, Tunisia, and Francophone Canada. Her work has been anthologized in numerous countries, including Russia, Latvia, Hungary, Macedonia, Germany, and the United States, where a selection of her poems led off the recent Graywolf Press collection New European Poets (edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer). In the United States, her work has appeared in about forty magazines. Her three volumes of essays are What Prevents the World from Becoming a Picture, 1993, Visual Perception in Berkeley, 1998, and The Secret Condition of the Visible: Perception of Nature and the Arts, published in Brazil in 2009. She has organized and participated in International Poetry Festivals throughout the world, from Brazil to France, from England to Tunisia, or Venezuela, where Monte Avila brought out her Collected Poems, 2008. In 2012, she was chosen by an international jury to be the Portuguese representative at the “Parnassus International Poetry Festival” in London, where poets from 204 Olympic countries gathered to present their work. She is an active organizer of international cultural and humanitarian events, such as “Bridges of Literature for the World”, “2001: Port of Call: Porto”, and colloquia such as “The Excluded Third” (com Paulo Cunha e Silva), “Non-places in the Urban Environment” and “Interfaces (I and II)” with Maria Milano. She organized Internacional Poetry Meetings in Porto and Aveiro. In Córsega, she curated both a Creative Writing Workshop, and a Poetic Translation Workshop. Her most recent collaboration involves the project DUETS, under the direction of Maria Milano, dedicated to gathering funds for refugees from the Horn of Africa. In 2013 she is nominated for the most prestigious literary prize in the U.S.A. – Pushcart Prize – granted to the best work in Poetry or Fiction.

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