Algemira de Macedo Mendes, was born in Ipiranga of Piauí on January 11, 1963. City of natural beauties and religious tradition, as is shown in its hymn, of responsibility of Olívia Rufino, Ipiranga, piece of Brazil / Of hope and thousand dreams / Ipiranga earth of the canebrakes / dear earth ground of faith / Artists Hands, that together /ask for protection /The sublime patronal / The Virgin of the Conception. Sixth daughter of the couple Joaquim Mendes Pereira and Francisca de Macedo Fontes. Her father is Leonardo Mendes's descendent, donee of Fradinho farm that later on received the name of Buriti and, today, Ipiranga of Piauí. The earth was received as a gift in the XVIII century, from his wife, daughter of a Portuguese that came to Brazil at that colonization time. Settling down at Vila Mocha, first capital of Piauí, today the city of Oeiras at 350km far from Teresina, current capital of Piauí State. Her mother is daughter of farmers of the area, that adopted as main objective the children's education, although rudimentary. They hired private teachers to teach the first letters to the children, it was about 19l4, when to have access to the knowledge was still privilege of few in the northeastern Brazil.

The researcher has as companion and friend, the son Luís Filipe Mendes Maia, 8 years old, that serves as motivation to travel the infinite trails.

She began her first studies, in 1972. In 1979 she concluded the primary school. She frequented in 1980 the pedagogic course, at Escola Normal Oficial of Picos at 100km far from her city. In that period, besides studying, she was member of the youths' group, linked to the Sisters' School, where she acquired experience in popular and cultural movements. In 1983, after concluding the pedagogic course, she went back to her city and assumed her first employment, in the Municipal Library. At that time, she developed in that organ, several incentive activities to the reading. After, she became advisory cultural of the Municipal City hall of Ipiranga. She worked as coordinator of Adult Education and Infantile Teaching. As advisory cultural, in 1984, she created with other youths of the city the Youth's Week, artistic and cultural movement, that survives even today marking the history of the municipal district and being accomplished during the month of July. In 1988, she entered in the State University of Piauí in the course of Letters, larger accomplishment, because early her interest began for the books. She also integrated into the student movement in the 80s. She participated as one of the organizer of the Week of Letters at UESPI.

She presented works in several scientific congresses as, for example, Brazilian Society for the Progress of the Science - SBPC and Congress of Reading of Brazil COLE. She is auxiliary teacher of Brazilian Literature and Literary Theory of the State University of Piauí - UESPI, coordinating the Letters/Portuguese course and the Letters /Spanish course, and the master's lato sensu in Literary Studies. She is also auxiliary teacher at Maranhão State University - UEMA, since 2000, in Caxias - MA. She is working at post-graduation lato sensu, in the area of Brazilian literature not only teaching but also guiding monographs and as a member of academic boards of scholars for majoring work evaluation. She also guides scholarship holders of primary scientific studies linked to Pro-Rectory of Research and Post-graduation at UESPI.

During the accomplishment of her master's course she knew the REDOR (research net about women and their gender relationships), where she started the fight for the woman's ransom in the literature when she began her first research in the area. She is Master in Letters for UFPE (2002), with the dissertation " THE Representation of the Feminine Image in Amélia Bevilaqua's work. That writer was born in Jerumenha (PI) and she lived among 1861-1946, she published more than twenty works like romances, stories, etc. She also was the first candidate to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in 1930, not being accepted because she was a woman. The Professor. Dr. Luzilá Gonçalves Ferreira (UFPE) orientated the dissertation work.