Arraes lives in São Paulo, where she created the Women's Writing Club (Portuguese: Clube da Escrita Para Mulheres).

To date, she has more than 70 publications in the cordel literature style, including the biographical collection Heroínas Negras na História do Brasil.

He founded the Centro de Cultura Mestre Noza and the Associação dos Artesãos do Padre Cícero, with the objective of coalescing the artists of Juazeiro do Norte for the organizing and valorizing the activity of the city's artisans.

With a vast collection of more than 250 packets, he brings in his works a strong commitment to history and political struggle involving historical personalities and various racial issues.

[5] Along with cordel literature, her influences also include authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Paulo Leminski, Manuel Bandeira and Ferreira Gullar.

In July 2015, Arraes published As Lendas de Dandara, her first prose book that in one edition had illustrations by Aline Valek.

[17] A poet engaged with the Sociedade dos Poetas Malditos, she used the artistic field to make tools for creating social consciousness.

[19] She had a launch tour in French cities and participated in events in Paris, at the Maison de l'Amérique latine, as well as in Rennes, in La Rochelle at the Musée du Nouveau Monde, and in Lille, at the Le Bateau, along with having visited various schools and universities.

[6] In July 2019, she launched her first book of tales through the publisher Alfaguara (Companhia das Letras), Redemoinho em dia quente, in which she introspects on her Cariri ancestry.

They were taken in Juazeiro do Norte and in Crato, both in the Cariri region, the area where she grew up and where also the tales from Redemoinho em dia quente took place.

The first 50 people that bought Redemoinho em dia quente at the launch event won a rare copy of a piece of cordel literature by Arraes herself.

The piece cointained two stories: the first being a complete version of cordel that was part of the regular book, "Asa no pé", and a second one based loosely on the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, titled "Patas vazias".

A list of some of her poems include the following titles: On 12 October 2017, actress and singer Thalma de Freitas premiered a musical about Heroínas Negras Brasileiras em 15 cordéis at Jazz nos Fundos in São Paulo.