November 5, 2022
Our alumni Yairamarén Maldonado has recently published a terrific book of poetry, Ciencia ficción en el mirador. Sci-fi at the mirador, a bilingual edition of 169 pages edited by Ediciones Del Flamboyan (San Juan, PR) with drawings by Lorraine Rodríguez. According to the Dominican poet Frank Báez, “In the face of colonial, historical, and heteropatriarchal traumas, Yairamarén’s verses embrace and connect us.”
Yairamarén is also the author of the collection of poems Interfaces (Editora Educación Emergente, 2017), and her doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley is entitled “Indebted Pasts, Alternative Futures: Caribbean Digital Imaginations in Twenty-First Century Literature” (2020). Congratulations, Yaira!