Jorge Lucio de Campos was born in Rio de Janeiro on 15th September 1958. He is graduated in Philosophy (1981) by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where he also made (de 1982 a 1996) the Mastery (Aesthetics) in Philosophy, the Doctorate and a Post-Doctorate (History of the Systems of Thought) in Communication and Culture. He is an Adjunct Professor of Theory of Communication and Culture at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). As an essayist, he published the entries related to brazilian art of the portuguese edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Art of Ian Chilvers, Harold Osborne and Dennis Farr (Martins Fontes, São Paulo, 1996) and the books Do simbólico ao virtual: A representação do espaço em Panofsky e Francastel [From symbolic to virtual: The representation of space in Panofsky and Francastel] (Perspectiva/EdUERJ, São Paulo, 1990) and A vertigem da maneira: Pintura e pós-vanguarda na década de 80 [The vertigo of manner: Painting and post-avant-garde in the eighties] (Revan/FAPERJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2002). As a poet, he published the books Arcangelo (EdUERJ, Rio de Janeiro, 1991), Speculum (EdUERJ, 1993), Belveder [Belvedere] (Diadorim/UNESA, 1994), A dor da linguagem [The pain of language], Sette Letras, Rio de Janeiro, 1996) and À maneira negra [In the black way], (Sette Letras, 1997) His poems, essays and interviews circulate in various printed and virtual magazines and sites such as: Milk, Inter/Face, White Leaf, Eratio, Igdrasil, BlazeVOX 2k4, The modern review, Moria, Exquisite Corpse, A Little Poetry, Helicóptero (United States), Storm Magazine (Portugal), Arena y Cal (Spain), Sincronia (México), Espéculo (Spain), El Artefacto Literario (Sweden), Encontro de Escritas (Portugal), La-lectura.com (Argentina), sèrieAlfa (Spain), Los Amigos de lo Ajeno (Costa Rica and Argentina), Proyecto Arjé (Uruguay), La Casa de Asterión (Colombia), El Fantasma de la Glorieta (Spain), Revista Virtual de Cultura Iberoamerica (United States) e México Volitivo (Mexico). For years, he colaborated as an articulist in many brazilian newspapers such as: O Globo (Prosa & Verso), Jornal do Brasil (Idéias/Livros) and Folha de São Paulo (Mais!). He participated, recently, in the anthology (organized by brazilian poets Claudio Daniel and Frederico Barbosa) Na virada do século: Poesia de invenção no Brasil [At the turn of the century: Poetry of invention in Brazil]: (Landy, São Paulo, 2002).