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Essays<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Reinstatement of Paternalism in US-Puerto Rican Relations in Esmeralda Santiago\u2019s Am\u00e9rica\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Tracy A. Stephens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracy A. Stephens<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of English and General Education at Queens University of Charlotte. Her areas of specialization are postcolonial studies, contemporary American literature, multiethnic American literature, and disability studies. She is especially focused on US imperialism and neocolonial discourses in American literature.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rican Diasporic Novels: Witnessing State Violence and Contesting Freedom in Nicholasa Mohr’s Felita and Nilda<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By <\/strong>Keishla Rivera-Lopez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keishla (Kay-shla) Rivera-Lopez<\/strong> is a writer, poet, and scholar. She received a PhD in American Studies at The Graduate School-Newark at Rutgers University where she was awarded the 2019-2020 Dean\u2019s Dissertation Fellowship to finish her dissertation project titled \u201cWriting Freedom: Puerto Rican Women\u2019s Literary Conceptualizations of Motherhood and Memory Beyond Archives.\u201d She was born and raised in Newark, NJ to Puerto Rican migrants and reflects on what it means to be a child of diaspora in her scholarship and writing. Currently, Dr. Rivera-Lopez is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies at Montclair State University.<\/p>\n

Las aventuras de don Chipote o cuando los pericos mamen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By <\/strong>Yamicela Torres Mollinedo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yamicela Torres Mollinedo <\/strong>has a degree in Spanish and Literature and a Masters in Communicative Teaching of Spanish and Literature from the Felix Varela Pedagogical University, Santa Clara, Cuba. She also has an MA in Arts in Spanish from Florida International University. She has worked as a Spanish teacher in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States.\u00a0She currently works as Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Miami. She is a PhD candidate in Spanish at Florida International University.<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tacos de lenguas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Elizabeth Jim\u00e9nez Montelongo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Jim\u00e9nez Montelongo<\/strong> is a poet, visual artist, and facilitator. Her work is informed by her Indigenous ancestry, Mesoamerican philosophy, Mexika & Mixtec art, Mexican culture, Raza history, and her experiences as an Indigenous Mexican Chicana woman. She served as 2021 Creative Ambassador of the San Jos\u00e9 Office of Cultural Affairs and has facilitated generative poetry workshops for universities and non-profit organizations. Elizabeth earned a BFA in Art and a BA in French from San Jos\u00e9 State University. She hosts Cultura Poetry Night as a Board Member of Poetry Center San Jos\u00e9, serves as a reader for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, and is the Director & Editor of La Ra\u00edz Magazine. www.ejmontelongo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

La Ra\u00edz Magazine\u00a0www.rootsartistregistry.com\/laraiz<\/a><\/p>\n

American Me<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By David Michael Martinez<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Michael Martinez<\/strong> holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State, and a BA in Spanish and an MA in English from Chico State where he was a Mechista, ballet folkl\u00f3rico dancer, and a founder of the Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity. Currently an Instructional Program Specialist with the Migrant Education Program in northern California, he works with children of migrant workers teaching creative writing, persuasive writing, and speech. His poems have been published in the Americas Review<\/em>; Saguaro<\/em> (University of Arizona Mexican American Research Foundation); Flies, Cockroaches and Poets<\/em> (Fresno State\u2019s Chicana\/o Writers and Artists Association); the Great American Wise Ass Anthology<\/em>; and Label Me Latino\/a<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Short Stories<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Lost Train<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By <\/strong>Eduardo R. del Rio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eduardo R. del Rio<\/strong> was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His Latino identity informs much of his work, including this story. He is an NEH Fellow, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino Literature<\/em> and One Island, Many Voices: Interviews with Cuban-American Writers <\/em>from the U of Arizona Press, as well as having authored numerous national and international peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a retired full professor from the University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville campus. His latest prose and poetry can be found in The Journal of Caribbean Literature<\/em>, Fictive Dream<\/em>, and Voices de la<\/em> Luna. <\/em>His hybrid collection of poetry and short prose CubaR\u00edcan <\/em>is forthcoming (2023) from Mouthfeel Press.<\/p>\n

Me cas\u00e9 con la muerte<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Margarita Dager-Uscocovich<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margarita Dager-Uscocovich <\/strong>es autora de la novela corta No es tiempo de morir<\/em> que ha sido acreedora en su primer a\u00f1o de vida a dos premios en Estados Unidos como mejor novela de ficci\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol y menci\u00f3n honorifica por los ILBA 2019 y 2020 como mejor novela de aventura y drama y Las queremos vivas<\/em> con menci\u00f3n honor\u00edfica, Ilba 2022. Sus poemas, relatos cortos y micro relatos forman parte de antolog\u00edas publicadas en Espa\u00f1a, M\u00e9xico, Argentina, Uruguay, Estados Unidos de Am\u00e9rica y Berl\u00edn, Alemania. La nostalgia hacia su cultura y el valor de sus tradiciones, se dibujan en varios de sus relatos cuyo eje principal es la mujer. Su segunda novela Las queremos vivas<\/em> nos lleva de la mano a descubrir por qu\u00e9 Charlotte se ha convertido en la cuarta ciudad de Estados Unidos, donde el tr\u00e1fico humano, el acoso y la violencia de g\u00e9nero extiende sus alas para marcar a nuestra sociedad. Actualmente sus art\u00edculos de opini\u00f3n se leen en el peri\u00f3dico La Naci\u00f3n Ec. Asimismo ha colaborado con la revista La Nota Latina<\/em> de la ciudad de Miami con sus art\u00edculos de viaje, con la revista VozEs<\/em> de Charlotte y con la Revista Latina NC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Para esta escritora, el escribir en espa\u00f1ol es un acto sagrado, sin embargo, en la actualidad ella considera que hacerlo es m\u00e1s bien un acto de valent\u00eda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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