By Amaris Castillo In the summer of 2019, Adriana Herrera got the idea for a new romance book when she learned the Dominican Republic had...

By Amaris Castillo On the very first page of Neruda on the Park, debut author Cleyvis Natera drops readers into the boom and crash of a...

By Amaris Castillo Over the course of 15 years, Cleyvis Natera quietly worked on a story about a Dominican mother and daughter who take...

By Amaris Castillo In 2009, Elizabeth Acevedo wrote a poem about hair as part of her honors thesis. In it, the New York-born dominicana...

By Amaris Castillo Debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez begins High Spirits with the story of Gabriel, an academic on the brink of...

By Amaris Castillo For the past few years, Dominican American author Claribel A. Ortega has been immersed in Ravenskill, a magical town...

National Poetry Month is celebrated annually during the month of April. It is a time to celebrate everything we love about poetry, to...

As the end of 2019 approaches we have taken some time to reflect back on the Dominican writers who have published this year. 2019 has...

Al nacer en los Estados Unidos y ser criada por padres inmigrantes Dominicanos, siempre sentí que tenía esta crisis de identidad...

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But...

Excerpt as published on The Paris Review written by Carina del Valle Schorske Naima Coster and I met in passing in college at Yale. We...

Book review: Para Cenar Habra Nostalgia Whenever you come across a book that shifts your whole outlook on your cultural identity, it is...