Tânia Martins

[2] Martins attended primary school in Licínio de Almeida, coming to Caetité, a city with a centuries-old educational tradition, to study at the intermediate level.

[2] From the age of eleven, she began to versify, and recited her works on civic dates and solemn ceremonies of her homeland.

Martins began to publish her poems in the Tribuna do Sertão newspapers, O Tibagi (in Telêmaco Borba, Paraná) and O Impacto (in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia).

[3] She was seated in Chair Number 3 at the "Academia Caetiteense de Letras", whose patron is the educator Anísio Teixeira, joining its first board as secretary.

In October of the same year, she participated in the production of the book alhos e Retalhos, by the Municipal Department of Education, a pioneering work in the dissemination and encouragement of the art of writing in the public schools of Caetité.