Adelina da Silva was born in the Island of Fogo, Cabo Verde. She immigrated to the United States in 1976. She taught ESL and ELA in Boston Public Schools for three decades and published Echoes of the Tides, a book of poems, in 2008. The book ws re-published in 2012 by www.readersmagnet.com. Adelina has also published poems in Portuguese and Caboverdean Creole.