Biography of a Fiction

Biography of a Fiction collects poems written between 2020 to 2025. These poems were written in a diaristic way, mostly in short form, while working on larger pieces, some of which also collected here or elsewhere. What started, seemingly, as notes on reproductive desire, gender, and sexuality soon matured into a meditation on the role of fiction in the exercise of writing (and idealizing) a biography, including the thorny aspect of artistic license and the uses of one’s own life and of others. Isadora Neves Marques is a poet, film director, and artist. They are the author of the poetry collections A Campa de Marx (Não Edições, 2025) and Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (Pântano Books, 2020). They published short story collections, such as Morrer na América (Kunsthalle Lissabon & Abysmo, 2017), and edited several projects on art and theory with Archive Books, Sternberg Press, and e-flux journal. Their films and artworks have been exhibited globally, from Semaine de la Critique and the International Film Festival Rotterdam to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and CA2M in Madrid. With artist Alice dos Reis, they co-founded the poetry press Pântano Books in 2020.