Mirna Queiroz has an extensive career dedicated to journalism, literary editing, and culture.

In Brazil, she held various positions at national TV stations. She was also a correspondent for BBC Radio in Lisbon, Brussels, and Singapore.

In Singapore, she conceived and organized the first Brazilian film festival in Southeast Asia (Brazilian Film Festival Singapore), with support from the Petrobras oil company.

In the third sector, she had a short but formative experience as a Program Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency for development, in São Tomé and Príncipe, where she was responsible for the execution and technical, financial, and administrative coordination of projects on good governance and poverty reduction, youth empowerment, and the promotion of activities that generate financial resources.

She was part of the "Lives That Don't End" project of the Público newspaper, as the author of six biographies, including those of Camões and Fernando Pessoa.

After years living in countries such as Portugal, Italy, England, Belgium, Singapore, and São Tomé and Príncipe, she returned to Brazil, where she founded and worked as executive editor of the award-winning magazine Pessoa, a digital platform focused on contemporary Portuguese-language literary production. Founded in 2010 in São Paulo, its aim was to give visibility to the literatures of Portuguese-speaking countries. In 2016, the newspaper Valor Econômico highlighted the magazine as "one of the most innovative and plural initiatives to emerge on the literary scene in recent years." It was one of the most widely read magazines on Portuguese-language literature, with over one million readers from various countries. In 2019, the magazine won the IPL Retratos da Leitura Award in the Media category in Brazil. The closure of Pessoa magazine and the donation of its estate to the University of São Paulo was announced in 2023 by Folha de São Paulo, which described it as "a prestigious magazine in literary circles."

Still within the field of literature, she curated, for two consecutive years, the parallel programming of the Museum of the Portuguese Language and the Roberto Marinho Foundation at FLIP – the Paraty International Literary Festival.

For the Museum of the Portuguese Language, she curated the cultural programming of the exhibition "The Portuguese Language Within Us" at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, in 2018. In the same year, after winning a public competition, she designed the Reference Center of the Museum of the Portuguese Language.

In the last decade, she was responsible for editing and co-editing anthologies of Brazilian literature in Portuguese, English, French, and Arabic, and organized several events promoting Portuguese-language literature in the USA (Boston and New York), France, Belgium, Portugal, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates, with the support of governmental and corporate entities. She also served as a juror and co-curator for the main literary awards in Brazil.

In Portugal, where she returned to live in 2019, she organized the Pessoa Festival, curated the international edition of the Ronda de Poesia Festival in Leiria, and conceived and directed FesThink - Festival of Thought, which had its first edition in Almada, as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival.

She holds a degree in Journalism from the Catholic University of Santos and a master's degree in Cultural Studies from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a dissertation on the impact of digital technology on literary reading. She has both Brazilian and Portuguese nationality.

mirna.queiroz@kefoundation.eu