Conceição Riachos was born in Golegã and lives in Coimbra. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education from the Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra. She carried out her professional activity in Pediatric services with seriously ill children, being the author of numerous published works in this area. Her poetry collections include the following titles: Ritos de Passagem (Pé de Página Editores, 1998), Olhares (Pé de Página Editores, 1998), O Livro do Tó João (Pé de Página Editores, 1998), Peregrinação (Pé de Página Editores, 2000), Instantes, with the photographer Maria João Baginha (Pé de Página Editores, 2002), A Silhueta Branda das Veias (Pé de Página Editores, 2005), Fios na Roda dos Passos (Temas Originales, 2010), Na Própria Margem (Palimage, 2012) and A Forma Fugaz das Sílabas (Temas Originais 2016). She also published poems and short stories in the magazines Entre Letras, Oficina de Poesia, Rua Larga and in the following collections: Coletânea de Poesia (2001), Transnatural (2006), Palavras de Vento e Pedra (2006), 100 Anos – 100 Poetas (2008), Balaio de Ideias – I Coletânea Scriptus (Brazil, 2009) and Cidade – Antologia Literária – vol. IV (Brasil, 2010). He was a member of the free course “Oficina de Poesia” and the subproject of the same name, within the scope of the Reseaerch Project “Novas Poéticas de Resistência” (FCT/CES), both developed at the University of Coimbra. Her poetry has been the subject of some academic work, such as that of Brazilian literary critic Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff (“O Abismo da Linguagem: O Desejo na Poesia de Conceição Riachos”, Gláuks. Revista de Letras e Artes – Vol. 10. nº2, Jul/Dec. 2010 and Poem-ando Além Fronteiras: dez poetas contemporâneas irlandesas e portuguesas. Poem-ing Beyond Borders: ten contemporary Irish and Portuguese women poets, Terra Ocre/Palimage, pp.48-61). Over the years, she has coordinated several Creative Writing workshops in schools.
