Joyce Cavalccante is a Brazilian author of seven novels, plus several short stories and articles that today appear in eight anthologies.
Cavalccante's writings focus on the plight of women in Brazil who live to pray, marry and die.
She spent her childhood in the city of Sobral, precisely on the Jatobá farm owned by her parents.
She has published eight books of prose fiction individually, and participated in fifteen collections of short stories with other authors.
She systematically contributes to the press, publishing short stories, reviews, articles and chronicles.