Maria do Carmo Abecassis

{{short description|Mozambican poet}}

Maria do Carmo Abecassis is a Mozambican poet.

Abecassis was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.{{cite web|accessdate=2014-10-19|url=http://cantoepalavras.blogspot.ca/2009/02/aguinaldo-fonseca-os-eternos-momentos.html|author=Alberto Lacerda |title=OS ETERNOS MOMENTOS DE POETAS E PENSADORES DA LINGUA PORTUGUESA|work=cantoepalavras}}

She is known for her collection of poems in Portuguese Em vez de asas tenho braços ("Instead of wings I have arms"), published in 1973.{{cite book|title=National Union Catalog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOQ8AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield, Incorporated|page=196}}{{cite web|url=http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/FEMECalireLU.html|title=WOMEN WRITING AFRICA: A Bibliography of Lusophone Women Writers|publisher= European Languages and Studies, The University of Western Australia |accessdate=19 October 2014}} She was known to be employed by the Expresso newspaper of Lisbon in 1981.