The Availability of the Soul celebrates the career of Marina Colasanti, one of the most acclaimed and award-winning authors in Brazilian literature. This anthology brings together different textual genres: short stories, short-short stories, poems, chronicles, memoirs, essays and interviews in an exclusive selection made by Vera Maria Tietzmann Silva, a specialist in children’s and young adult literature and researcher of Marina’s work. Tietzmann also wrote a foreword that covers the career of the writer. Longing for love, the search for identity, the feminine condition, the inexorability of time, memory and dedication to writing are some of the themes addressed. Through the diversity and power of the texts presented in this anthology, the reader is invited to get to know the work of a great artist and to understand what it means to write — and live — with body and soul.