Noise

About the Book

Noise is a collection of short stories and poems set in the vibrant city of Rio de Janeiro in the southeast of Brazil. The suburbs chosen to be the setting for the stories and poems in this book have something significant about them that makes it right for the story. Not every suburb is displayed in the book—only the ones I have spent most of my childhood, my teenage years, and some years of my adulthood before migrating to Australia in 2008.

About the Author

Alessandra Salisbury is a Brazilian creative writer, journalist and actress. She has been living in Australia for the past 11 years where she graduated in Creative Writing and is currently undertaking Bachelor of Arts/Education majoring Drama to achieve her third University degree. She has written, acted on and produced several plays in Rio de Janeiro before migrating to Australia in 2008. She is now the founder, director and choreographer of Starlettes Dance Theatre in the Far North Coast area of New South Wales. With Starlettes, she has written, directed and choreographed more than 15 theatre plays since 2010. She also has published two kids books Naughty Nana, and Naughty Nana and the old house around the corner. She won third prize in 2016 Fusion Poetry Competition at Australia Southern Cross University with her poem ‘Hummus and Herbs’ about family of immigrants, and won second prize with the same poem on the American online magazine Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge 2017. Her creative writing works have appeared on the American literary magazines, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Borfski Press, Poetry Leaves, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Tiny Spoon, Comstock Review, Chicago Memory House and Event Horizon. She has poems published in the Indian OPA Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. In Australia, her works have appeared on Northerly Magazine.