Letycia Soares Nua |work|

During these years, Letycia also discovered activism. In 2009, she led a student‑wide petition demanding the school adopt a recycling program. The initiative succeeded, and the campus installed the first composting bins in the region, a modest but symbolic victory that reinforced her belief that change begins at the grassroots level.

In the following years, she contributed short stories to several independent literary journals, most notably Canto das Ondas and Vozes do Sertão . Her stories often foreground protagonists who navigate intersecting identities—race, gender, class—within a rapidly urbanizing Brazil. A recurring motif is the tension between migration (both internal and external) and the yearning for rootedness. letycia soares nua