Inês Castel-Branco was born in Lisbon in 1977, and was awarded a PhD in architecture, with a European mention, from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2007. She took her master’s degree in architecture, art and ephemeral space at the PUC in 2002, and her bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Port in 2001. She won the Joan Maragall award in 2003 with her work Ephemeral Ways to the Eternal: Intersections between Liturgy and Art, published by Cruïlla in 2004. She has shown her work in individual and collective exhibitions of paintings and drawings, and currently works in graphic and book design. She has written articles and given courses and conferences at various institutions on the relationship between spirituality and the arts, with a focus on the ephemeral arts such as theatre. In 2007, she and Ignasi Moreta founded the publishing house Fragmenta Editorial, at which she is graphics director.