Isabel Lucas is a journalist and literary critic. With a degree in Social Communication from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she began her journalism career in television and has since worked in the editorial offices of some of Portugal's leading newspapers and magazines. A freelancer since 2012, she writes regularly for the newspaper Público and collaborates with Ler magazine, Quatro Cinco Um, and Antena 3. She is the author of Conversas com Vicente Jorge Silva, and the books Viagem ao sonho americano, Viagem ao país do futuro and Conversas com escritores. She has co-authored books on dance and the visual arts. In 2022, she curated the programming for the Portuguese Pavilion at the São Paulo Book Biennial. She is the curator of the Oceanos Prize for Literature and a professor at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social in Lisbon. In 2021, she won the first Vicente Jorge Silva Excellence in Journalism Award.