Ana Maria Gonçalves

Ana Maria Gonçalves (born 1970) is a Brazilian writer.

She was born in Ibiá, Minas Gerais. Gonçalves was a professor of English and then a publicist in São Paulo. In 2002, she decided to pursue writing full-time. Later that year she published her first novel Ao lado e à margem do que sentes por mim« ("Beside and at the edge of what you feel for me"). In 2006, she published the novel »Um defeito de cor« ("A color defect"); it received the Casa de las Américas Prize for the category Brazilian literature in 2007. In 2009, she was included in a list published by the newspaper O Globo of the best Brazilian books from the previous decade. Her short stories have been included in anthologies published in Portugal and Italy.

Gonçalves was writer in residence at Tulane University in 2007, at Stanford University in 2008 and at Middlebury College in 2009. As of 2019, she was living in New Orleans.

In 2015, an adaptation of the book A Color Defect was announced for a television series, scheduled for release in 2021.

In December 2016, Ana Maria Gonçalves became a columnist on racial, cultural and political issues for The Intercept Brazil.