Chiara Ferreira is a Portuguese crime writer and former courtroom interpreter from Porto. After studying criminology at the University of Porto, she spent six years covering late-night police shifts for a local paper, an experience that shaped her gritty, river-slick sense of place and the procedural precision of her fiction.
Ferreira is the author of the Lusophone noir novels Pier of Ashes, Borrowed Evidence, and Paper Saints, and her work has been shortlisted for the Sombra Noir Prize and the Lusophone Crime Writers Award. She has contributed essays on funerary customs and urban folklore to cultural magazines across Portugal and Brazil. When she isn’t interviewing detectives or sitting in on inquests, Chiara teaches narrative craft at a community arts center in Foz do Douro and walks a retired racing greyhound named Fado along the Atlantic breakwater.
