Maria Odete da Costa Semedo (born 7 November 1959 in Bissau) is a writer and educator from Guinea-Bissau.
She graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in the academic year 1989/1990.
[2] Upon returning to the country, in 1990, she assumed the National Coordination of the Portuguese Language Project in Secondary Education, financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is the founder of the journal Revista de Letras, Artes e Cultura Tcholona, and has published two books of poetry, Entre o Ser e o Amar and No Fundo do Canto.
[1] At the invitation of Rui Duarte de Barros and Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, she took over, on 8 January 2013, as dean of the University Amilcar Cabral, being the first after the restructuring of the institution.