Da Paz Oliveira, writer and poetess, was born on June 3, 1944 in Serra Negra, district from Bezerros city - PE. She is named “Poetisa das Campinas” – “Poetess of the Plains”. She finished high school at the age of 37 and she worked as a teacher for 27 years. In Serra Negra, she met and married João Bosco da Silva, a young man with whom she has eight children. Their marriage was on 25 March, 1965. When she was sixteen years old she began a career as a teacher; in 1979 she moved to the city and there she worked as a teacher until she retired from employment. Da Paz writes poetry since she was a teenager, and only now, at the age of 67, she publishes her first book of poetry, mamed "My Treasure".
She was born and spent her childhood in Serra Negra, a small rural place, district from Bezerros - Pernambuco - Brazil. She is the second daughter of Maria Olívia de Oliveira e Manuel Rufino de Oliveira – a family with thirteen children. Their parents were dedicated to agricultural occupations like coffee growing and trading of cattle for several years and since they are from Serra Negra, life on the nature was a natural way of life for Da Paz Oliveira. Much of her childhood was spent around the birds, butterflies, cows, horses, chickens, dogs of Serra Negra. Now her parents live in Bezerros. Her mother is 87 years old and her father is 95 years old.
