Margarita Pintado Burgos (Associate Professor of Spanish) recognized as a 2022 Letras Boricuas Fellow. This is the second cohort of 20 Puerto Rican writers recognized with $25,000 fellowship for impactful literary contributions.
The biography provided by the indroduces Pintado as follows: "Margarita Pintado was born on January 16, 1981 in Bayam贸n, Puerto Rico. She was raised in this municipality鈥檚 barrios of Cerro Gordo and Braulio Due帽o. She currently lives in San Diego, California. She is a professor of languages and literature, poet and essayist. She studied journalism at the University of Puerto Rico and completed her Doctorate in Spanish at Emory University in Atlanta. She is a professor of language and literature at 国产剧麻豆剧 in San Diego, California.
Her published books include Ficci贸n de venado (2012), Una muchacha que se parece a m铆 (2016), for which she received the Poetry Award in a contest held by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in 2015, Proyecto inacabado de la ruina, (2017) and Simult谩nea, la marea (2022). She wrote, together with Cuban poet Lorenzo Garc铆a Vega, the experimental novel Ping-Pong Zuihitsu (pending publication with Rialta). She edited the bilingual (Spanish-Portuguese) anthology of Garc铆a Vega poems, Palabras que repito (Ed. Lumme, 2017). Her poems have been published in multiple anthologies and magazines. She is a reviewer for the blog El Roommate and co-director of a poetry space called Distr贸pika."
Letras Boricuas鈥攃reated in 2021 to identify, elevate, and amplify the voices of emerging and established Puerto Rican writers on the archipelago and across the United States diaspora鈥攑rovides writers with unrestricted grants of $25,000 each to support their practice. Now in its second year, the fellowship has awarded a total of $1 million to forty writers. In addition to the funding, fellows from the second cohort will join those from the inaugural class for a convening in Puerto Rico in the spring of 2023 to foster connection and share creative processes and fellowship experiences.