Mlucio’s Profile

Mauro Lucio da Silva, was born in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1953. Mauro Lucio lost his parents when he was only four years old. Without his relatives support, he started his study when he was 24 years old. It was during his high school studies, when he first had contact with poetry, and it was also, the time he started his love affair with poems and began to write. Mauro Lucio graduated from high school but never had the opportunity to finish his university studies.
In 1974, Mauro Lucio joined the Brazilian Foreign Affairs, where after passing his examinations, he was appointed to a position of Chancellery Attaché. In the following years, he has been appointed to serve at Brazilian Embassies in different cities in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He and his ex-wife Miraci, raised two daughter in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia.
In 2005, Mauro Lucio printed a private edition his first book “MEUS PASSOS” with 300 copies and in 2007, efforts led him, once again private edition, to publish the “O CANTAR DOS VENTOS” with 200 copies.
In all his poems, Mauro Lucio shows a great spiritual sensibility and a very special way to express concrete interference of the nature in his life.