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Sara F. Costa is a Portuguese poet, writer and translator. She has published six books in Portugal and one in India. Her latest book won the international award “Glória de Sant’Anna” for best poetry book published in Portuguese speaking countries in 2018. She has an MA in Intercultural Studies: Portuguese/Chinese from Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Her verses have been translated into several languages and featured in literary journals all across the world. As an emerging European poet, she was an invited author of the International Istanbul Poetry Festival 2017. In 2018, Sara worked in the organization of The Script Road-Macau Literary Festival and China-European Union Literary Festival in Shanghai and Suzhou. In 2019, she was invited to go to Kolkata, India to share her poetry in the second edition of “Chair Poetry Evenings”. She translates Chinese poetry into Portuguese and coordinates events for the Spittoon Beijing Based Arts Collective. She translated a collection of Chinese contemporary poetry into Portuguese. In 2021 she received a national grant from the Portuguese Government to write a poetry book. “River-Being, Bodily-God” (Red River, 2022) its her first poetry collection in English that she launched in Bangalore, India in the Asian Pacific Writers and Translators Literary Festival, November 2022.