Born to a Portuguese father and Spanish mother at the foot of Sierra Nevada, I spent my childhood between Granada's desert and the Swiss/Italian alpine slopes, just to end up growing my roots in a city known as the Portuguese Rome. All the traveling back and forth helped wire my hyperlexic, multilingual brain. And all the contrasting landscapes may have helped develop my relativist and scientific mindset. A wanderer, as much as I was a shoegazer, I'd describe myself as a rational introvert with a lyrical mind, that happened to have translated her way out of the teenage years. The very first books I read were in Italian and Spanish, although I attended a Portuguese. By the age of 12, I used to read my Spanish grandmother's Encyclopedia during Christmas holidays, and spent hours at my local public library reading philosophy, psychology and science books, just to end up writing and translating poetry at 15. No wonder I was already an old soul, passionate about literary interpretation, by the time I finished high school! So, when choosing a career, between my commitment to objective science and my love for subjective literature, I followed the Muses. An act of rebellion, I must confess, that was very much inspired and validated by Oscar Wilde, when he wrote: "To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour." No regrets, though. Twenty years later, here I am, a multilingual person, a language nerd — not a poet nor ruined after all, but still committed to translating my perceptions of this "sea-swarm world of atoms" into words!