Folklorist Luís da Câmara Cascudo deemed her as "the greatest mystical poet in Brazil".

When she was eleven, she was enrolled at the Colégio São Vicente de Paula, a Catholic school run by Vicentin nuns.

At eighteen, she began to collaborate with the magazine Oasis, and at twenty wrote for A República, a larger circulation newspaper which gave her visibility to other regions' press.

The following year she would write assiduously for Natal newspaper A Tribuna, and her verses were published together with several writers from Brazil northeast.

She was buried at Cemitério do Alecrim, but in 1904 her remains were moved to the family grave, at the church of Our Lady of Conception, in her birth city, Macaíba.