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, work that sharpened her procedural rigor and a river-lit sense of place. Ferreira is the author of the Lusophone noir novels Pier of Ashes, Borrowed Evidence, Paper Saints, Last Rites for The, and Barrow Hill. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Sombra Noir Prize and the Lusophone Crime Writers Award, and she is known for threading archival research, funerary customs, environmental anxieties, and urban folklore through tightly wound investigations.
Alongside prose, Ferreira writes for the page-and-panel form, collaborating with illustrators to bring her atmospheric Porto to graphic storytelling; her graphic work includes Lacquer. Her essays on mourning rites and city mythologies appear in 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—mentoring novelists and comics creators alike—and walks a retired racing greyhound named Fado along the Atlantic breakwater.
