Mayra Dias Gomes

Mayra Dias Gomes (born 15 December 1987) is a Brazilian author, reporter, media personality and professional wrestling personality. She currently plays the role of May Valentine on NWA Powerrr. Early life Mayra Dias Gomes is a Brazilian writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro and went to the American School of Rio de Janeiro until she was fifteen years old, where she learned to speak and write in English. She is the oldest daughter of acclaimed playwright Dias Gomes and actress Bernadeth Lyzio, and goddaughter of writers Jorge Amado and Zélia Gattai. Mayra grew up in an artistic environment focused on literature, theatre and television and started writing when she was still a child. She began writing in diaries, where she would detail her life on a daily basis, since she was eight years old. While she was a kid, her favorite activities included writing and producing scripts and plays, and writing music as well. Books Mayra wrote her first book, "Fugalaça", when she was seventeen years old. At age nineteen, her book was published by Editora Record (the largest publishing company in Latin America.) Mayra wrote "Fugalaça" while she was battling with depression. The author revealed that she went through a catharsis while working on her first novel. The book became an immediate phenomenon amongst Brazilian teenagers and a portrait of a generation unable to deal with frustrations. Satine, the narrator, is the author's alter ego. Both suffered with the sudden death of their father during pre-adolescence and became involved with a world of drugs, obsessive and destructive relationships and rock'n'roll. The book's foreword was written by Fernanda Young. In 2014, "Fugalaça" was published by Arara-Verlag at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in Germany, under the title "Brazilian Underground: Die Geschichte von Satine". In her second novel, "Mil e Uma Noites de Silêncio" ("One Thousand and One Nights of Silence"), the author wrote about a fictional character, Clara, a lonely girl who searches for a human bond. Abandoned by her biological parents, stood up by her fiancé on her wedding day, and an orphan due to the death of her adoptive mother, Clara is a lifeless, depressed girl. Her days drag with no motivation and living is nothing but a meaningless ritual. Scarred by abandonment, she is unable to integrate in society and is a collector of sleepless nights.