Rosa Alice Branco is a poet, essayist, and translator. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a Professor of the Theory of Perception. She has published eight volumes of poetry, including her collected poems, Spelling Out the Day (2004). Volumes of her poetry have appeared in Spain, Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Brazil, Francophone Canada, Luxembourg and Venezuela. Her work has been anthologized in numerous countries, including Russia, Latvia, Hungary, Macedonia, Germany, Corsica, and the USA. She has organized and participated in international poetry festivals throughout the world. Closer to home, she is an active organizer of literary events and festivals in the northern Portuguese cities of Aveiro and Porto. Her most recent volume of poetry The world doesn’t finish in the cold of your bones, 2009 has just been published in Portugal.