Judith Teixeira was born on January 25, 1880, in Viseu, Portugal. Teixeira is believed to be the first openly bisexual female poet in Portugal. An accomplished writer, between the years of 1918 to 1927, Teixeira had written three volumes of poetry, two novellas and a manifesto. Additionally, she founded and edited a magazine, Europa, of which sadly only a few issues survive. Several of her poems, such as those collected in her novel, Decadência, are love poems addressed to an unknown female addressee; although it is presumed that they were meant for Teixeira’s lover, the feminist and lesbian author Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira. Due to the lesbian themes of several of her works, Teixeira was often attacked in the conservative press for her “sexual shamelessness.” She died on May 17, 1959, in Lisbon. For more on Judith Teixeria, read Judith Teixeira (1880–1959): A Bisexual Woman Poet of the Roaring Twenties, by Samantha Pious.