Gisela Casimiro 

Writer in residence February 2025


T-YARD Writers Residency welcomes Gisela Casimiro as our sixth writer in residence in February 2025. Gisela Casimiro (b. 1984, Guinea-Bissau) is a Portuguese writer, artist, performer, speaker and activist, based in Lisbon. Casimiro works on identity, the body, memory, trauma, healing, anti-racism, post-colonialism, and everyday life. Her practice also involves curation, photography, installation, collage and sound.  She has a degree in Portuguese and English Studies from FCSH/NOVA. She is the author of Erosão(poetry), Giz (poetry), Casa com Árvores Dentro (play, directed by Cláudia Semedo), Estendais(nonfiction) and Privilégio Negro(antiracist manual, upcoming 2024). Casimiro translated Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider into Portuguese and wrote its preface. Her work has been featured in several national and international magazines and anthologies, and translated into Spanish, German, Mandarin and Turkish. Jornal de Letras did a profile on her writing. She coordinates the book club at Batalha Cinema Center with Teresa Coutinho. Casimiro is a founding UNA - União Negra das Artes member.



Photo by Filipe Ferreira.