Born in Rio de Janeiro, ELIANA ALVES CRUZ is a writer and journalist. Her debut novel, Água de barrela, was awarded the Fundação Palmares Silveira Oliveira Prize in 2015. She is also the author of the novels O crime do cais do Valongo (2018) and Nada digo de ti, que em ti não veja (2020), as well as a book of short stories, A vestida (2022), which won the Jabuti Award.
