Paulo da Costa was born in Luanda, Angola and raised in Portugal. He is the editor of filling Station magazine in Calgary. His first book of fiction, The Scent of a Lie was published in 2002 (Ekstasis Editions-Canada) and won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize - Best First Book, Caribbean and Canada region. In Portuguese, he has a forthcoming collection of poetry, Notas-de-Rodapé (Black Sun Editores). His poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines around the world and translated to Portuguese, Spanish, Slovenian and Italian. He lives in Alberta, Canada and at www.paulodacosta.com. |
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| my tongue eeled through her arched toes, moist, unhurried,
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