[1] Her writings mostly covered race and gender issues, including the European beauty standard in Brazil and women's roles in the social construct.
[8] Miriam Alves had a difficult time publishing her work due to the closed off atmosphere Brazil contained toward Afro-Brazilian writers.
[5] Her poems and short stories have been included in a number of anthologies, including Axé - Antologia Contemporânea da Poesia Negra Brasileira (Axé - Anthology of Contemporary Brazilian Black poetry) (1982), Razão da Chama (The Reason of the Flame) (1986) and Moving Beyond Boundaries, International Dimension of Black Women's Writing (1995).
She was an editor for the bilingual volume Enfim...Nos, Finally...Us, which was the first work to be published by an Afro-Brazilian after Quarto de Despejo by Three Continents Press.
[5] Two collections of her poems have been published: Momentos de busca (Moments of searching) (1983) and Estrelas no dedo (Stars in the fingers) (1985).