Marluci Ribeiro was born in Rio de Janeiro on July 13, 1966. She graduated in Business Administration and Public Administration from the University of Brasília (UnB) and holds postgraduate degrees in Personnel Management and Legislative Administration. She has previously worked as a teacher for the City of Rio de Janeiro and as an employee of the Brazilian postal service.

Since 2011, she has been a civil servant at the Brazilian Senate, where she works as a announcer for the Senate Radio. A lover of literature, she produces and hosts the segment "Encantos de Versos," focused on poetry and music, within the program "Autores e Livros" (Authors and Books). She contributed to the anthology "Uma Poesia para Cada Noite" (A Poem for Each Night), published by Lura Editorial, with the poem "Profundezas da Noite" (Depths of the Night). Married and mother of two boys – one a lawyer and the other a Physics student –, her dream is for more people to fall in love with reading.