Circe Maia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1932, but she has lived most of her life in the northern city of Tacuarembó. Her collected poems Circe Maia: Obra poética was published in Uruguay in 2011. Her latest book, Dualidades, was published in 2015. Invisible Bridge/ El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia, a bilingual edition of her work with translations by Jesse Lee Kercheval is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.