Adélia Prado was ranked by the National Library of Brazil as the nation’s fourth most important living poet. Veja (Brazil’s Newsweek) praised her as “a writer of rare brilliance and invincible simplicity.” Her books in English include The Alphabet in the Park (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), Ex-Voto (Tupelo Press, 2013), and The Mystical Rose (Bloodaxe Books, 2014).