Ticiani Meneses de Araujo was born in Araraquara, São Paulo (Brazil), in 1986. Like most authors and lovers of fiction, she was engulfed in that universe very young, inspired by her mother who always have a book in hand. Even before learning how to read she would create her own version of the story by the illustrations of the books. She wrote her first story by the age of 10, always starting a new one as the ideas appeared in a motion of wanting to be a new story, in the sense that, nowadays, she has from those creative teenager years more than 10 stories unfinished.
With a Bachelor in Foreign Languages and Portuguese from UNESP, top 10 best University of Brazil, Ticiani worked as an intern in three academic journals¹, offering also volunteering Portuguese Proofreading activities.
In her concentration of Semiotic Analysis of the Discourse, she studied² the case of the novel The Past, by Alan Pauls, as a material of adaptation used by movie director Hector Babenco to compose the movie of the same name. For this final paper, she took Screenplay I classes as an audit student at Ufscar. In 2013, Ticiani enrolled in three classes at NYU: Screenwriting II, Screenwriting III and Film Analysis.
Nowadays, Ticiani lives in NYC with her husband and works as a Portuguese Proofreader, recently finished a proofreading of short stories by P. H. Lovecraft for Martin Claret³, a Brazilian publishing house, and is finishing a movie script and a children’s novel.
Notes:
1. Revista de Ciências Farmacêuticas Básica e Aplicada (http://serv-bib.fcfar.unesp.br/seer/index.php/Cien_Farm), Revista de Alimentos e Nutrição (http://serv-bib.fcfar.unesp.br/seer/index.php/alimentos) and Revista de Letras (http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/letras).
2. http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/tcc/bar/3131/2010/araujo_tm_tcc_arafcl.pdf
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