Luís Peazê (1958) was born in Canoas, RS, Brazil. He studied at a parochial school and eventually moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1978, where he began to make his way in the working world. In the years between 1987 and 2000 he also lived and worked in the United States and Australia before returning to Brazil. He has been everything from a Systems Analyst to an award winning Ad-Man, an entrepreneur in plastics (active lifesytle products) and a manufacturer in California and Melbourne. Peazê is a journalist, writer, publisher and an acclaimed translator, ("For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway was one of his translations); Peazê is listed in the Brazilian hiLiterature Encyclopedia as writer, journalist and translator; founder (2003) and President of the Brazilian Coastal Institute, an NGO dedicated to building awareness of the coastal and marine environment; sailor and builder, enthusiast of wooden boats, and soccer is his permanent state of mind.