Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguaçu, 1977) is a writer, screenwriter and Brazilian music.

During her teens she played in a punk rock band and studied piano. As a screenwriter, he participated in the script for the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and together with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, he co-wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros staged in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves company. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.

She is the author of the trilogy A saga dos brutos, started with the short novels Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos and O trabalho sujo dos outros —published in a single volume— and which ended with the novel Carvão animal.

Influenced by Dostoevsky, by the cinematographic work of Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone, and by pulp series and literature, among others, her works are marked by violence and the treatment of her characters, which often include eschatological elements.