D. H. Machado was born in 1974 in Lisbon. He is a poet, novelist, and playwright, known for his demanding, lyrical, and conceptually bold writing. He studied Law, Medicine, and International Relations. He is the editor of The Poets and Dragons Society. He has authored over a dozen books, including Eliot (2022), a critical and creative response to The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, and the play Lady Macbeth, which extends Shakespeare’s tragic universe with formal rigor and theatrical imagination. Influenced by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and the European philosophical tradition, D. H. Machado constructs a deeply literary body of work, where poetic precision, moral tension, and structural boldness intersect. He lives among books, silences, and the persistence of ghosts.

Elisabete Rosa-Machado (b. 1976) is a primary school teacher, trainer, and reading mediator. She graduated from the Jean Piaget School of Education and pursued a master’s degree in Child Language at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2011, she completed a Specialization in School Administration and Management at Universidade Europeia (formerly ISLA – Lisbon), as well as a Postgraduate Degree in Children’s Books at Universidade Católica in 2016. 

Since 1998, she has been a head teacher in primary education and more recently also teaches English at the primary level. She is a volunteer and trainer at the Associação Nuvem Vitória (http://nuvemvitoria.pt), where she reads bedtime stories in hospital settings. She also translates children’s books into Portuguese. In January 2018, she founded the publishing house The Poets & Dragons Society, specializing in poetry and children’s literature. 

In 2019, she opened an English literature bookshop by the sea, and in 2024 she launched her latest project: a bookshop in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon. In 2021, she completed a Postgraduate Degree in School Library Management. A dreamer!