From poetic silences to joyful noise — I write what wants to be heard.
From poetic silences to joyful noise — I write what wants to be heard.
Gabriela Nascimento is a Brazilian author, writing in English and Portuguese, a poet, and a former journalist with over two decades of experience in storytelling, publishing, and communication.
Her work has spanned editorial leadership, best-selling gift books, and content strategy across cultures and industries — but fiction remains her first and final love.
I write from the place where silence meets the urge to speak.
I am Brazilian, rooted in Denmark, and permanently between worlds — languages, cultures, the quiet and the noise. I've stopped trying to choose. Instead, I write from the in-between, where the most honest things tend to live.
My books are for children who love words and adults who still feel everything too much. In my children's stories, language is a playground — loud, silly, physical, joyful. In my adult fiction, love is not an explosion. It's something that grows in the small, ordinary moments nobody thinks to mention.
I am a former journalist who fell, irreversibly, into fiction. Over two decades of storytelling taught me one thing above all: that people don't remember what you said. They remember how you made them feel.
I write with that in mind, always.
I believe in restraint over excess, in the sentence that earns its place, in the metaphor that does real emotional work. A fig tree in my stories is never just a fig tree. A dog named after a constellation is never just a dog.
I live with my husband — a novelist, which means our house has too many books and exactly the right number of conversations — and I am the mother of twin daughters who have grown into women I genuinely admire.
I write because I have to. And because somewhere, someone is reading and feeling a little less alone.
That's enough reason.