Contributors
- Contributors
José Alcántara Almánzar was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1946, and is considered the foremost short story writer of his generation. Known for his insightful explorations of his country's political situation, Alcántara Almánzar is also a respected scholar and literary critic. He has published five collections of short stories dating from the early 1980s, many of which are gathered in a recent anthology, El sabor de lo prohibido (1993).
Julia Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic, but came with her family to New York City as a child, in circumstances closely resembling those of her autobiographical novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and Yo! (1997), winners of numerous literary awards. She has also published In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), a collection of essays, Something to Declare (1998), and several volumes of poetry: The Housekeeping Book (1994), The Other Side / El Otro Lado (1995) and Homecoming: New Selected Poems (1996). Her writings have been published in a great range of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Hispanic Culture Review, Latina, Conjunctions, USA Today, The Washington Post Magazine, and The American Scholar. She teaches English and creative writing at Middlebury College. Her latest work of fiction, In The Name of Salomé, was published earlier this year.
Soledad Álvarez is one of her generation's most highly regarded poets, as well as a reputed scholar. Her 1994 collection of poems, Vuelo posible, is regarded as one of her best. She has also published literary scholarship, including La magna patria de Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1981) and Complicidades: ensayos y comentarios sobre literatura dominicana (1998).
Annecy Báez is the author of "Tell Me More," "The Language of Women," and "The Structure of Silence," and holds a PhD in Social Work from the New York University School of Social Work. She lives in New York City.
Josefina Báez, actress, writer, and educator, was born in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Ms. Báez is the founder and director of Latinarte / ay ombe (1986), an art troupe that promotes the arts, artists and culture of latinas in general, Dominicans in particular. Her written work has been published in Vetas (Caribbean Magazine), Brújula/Compass (Latin American Writers Institute-NY), and Ventana Abierta (University of California), among others. Ms. Báez also publishes PoesiAlmanaque (Poetry Calendar). As an educator, she has taught workshops in theatre and creative writing in schools throughout the tri-state area, at the Alvin Ailey summer dance camp, and in Hyderabad, India, in a collaboration with Ankuram—a women's collective working with urban youth. During 2000 she is the Asian Pacific Performance Exchange Program Fellow at the Center for Intercultural Performance, UCLA.
René Del Risco Bermúdez was born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, in 1937. He studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and was politically active in the cause against the Trujillo dictatorship. Before his premature death in an auto accident in 1967, he published two collections of short stories, Viento frío (1967) and Del júbilo a la sangre (1967). At the time of his death he was considered one of the Dominican Republic's most promising young authors. His stories and poems were collected posthumously in 1974 in En el barrio no hay banderas. [End Page 1156]
Neeta Bhasin is a doctoral student in rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Diógenes Céspedes is a professor of literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. A prominent scholar, he is the author of Poética de Franklin Mieses Burgos (1997) and the editor of Antología del cuento dominicano (1996). The author of numerous scholarly papers and popular articles, he is also a publisher at Editora De Colores in Santo Domingo.
Angie Cruz, born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC, is the co-founder of WILL: Women in Literature & Letters. She received the MFA degree in creative writing from New York University and is a recipient of a number of fellowships, including the New York Foundation For the Arts Fellowship and the Van Lier Literary Fellowship granted...
