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    Adriana Herrera on 'A Caribbean Heiress in Paris' and the Hustle of Dominican Women
    DWA Team
    • May 27
    • 10 min

    Adriana Herrera on 'A Caribbean Heiress in Paris' and the Hustle of Dominican Women

    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...
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    'Neruda on the Park' is a masterfully intricate story about gentrification, home, and love
    DWA Team
    • May 24
    • 5 min

    'Neruda on the Park' is a masterfully intricate story about gentrification, home, and love

    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...
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    Cleyvis Natera on ‘Neruda on the Park’ & the Deliciousness of Being Dominican
    DWA Team
    • May 17
    • 11 min

    Cleyvis Natera on ‘Neruda on the Park’ & the Deliciousness of Being Dominican

    By Amaris Castillo Over the course of 15 years, Cleyvis Natera quietly worked on a story about a Dominican mother and daughter who take...
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    Elizabeth Acevedo on transforming her viral hair poem into 'INHERITANCE: A Visual Poem'
    DWA Team
    • May 2
    • 5 min

    Elizabeth Acevedo on transforming her viral hair poem into 'INHERITANCE: A Visual Poem'

    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...
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    'High Spirits' is a Magical and Unflinching Look at the Dominican Diaspora
    DWA Team
    • Apr 12
    • 4 min

    'High Spirits' is a Magical and Unflinching Look at the Dominican Diaspora

    By Amaris Castillo Debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez begins High Spirits with the story of Gabriel, an academic on the brink of...
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    ‘Witchlings,’ Worldbuilding & Writing for Kids: A Q&A with author Claribel A. Ortega.
    DWA Team
    • Mar 24
    • 12 min

    ‘Witchlings,’ Worldbuilding & Writing for Kids: A Q&A with author Claribel A. Ortega.

    By Amaris Castillo For the past few years, Dominican American author Claribel A. Ortega has been immersed in Ravenskill, a magical town...
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    Dominican-American Poets you should be reading during National Poetry Month.
    DWA Team
    • Apr 11, 2021
    • 10 min

    Dominican-American Poets you should be reading during National Poetry Month.

    National Poetry Month is celebrated annually during the month of April. It is a time to celebrate everything we love about poetry, to...
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    Dominican Writers who published in 2019
    DWA Team
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 9 min

    Dominican Writers who published in 2019

    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...
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    La Casa de las Maletas - Book Review
    DWA Team
    • Sep 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    La Casa de las Maletas - Book Review

    Al nacer en los Estados Unidos y ser criada por padres inmigrantes Dominicanos, siempre sentí que tenía esta crisis de identidad...
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    Dominicana - Book Review
    DWA Team
    • Jun 2, 2019
    • 4 min

    Dominicana - Book Review

    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...
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    Owning Brooklyn: An Interview with Naima Coster
    DWA Team
    • Feb 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    Owning Brooklyn: An Interview with Naima Coster

    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...
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    Para Cenar Habra Nostalgia - Book Review
    DWA Team
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 3 min

    Para Cenar Habra Nostalgia - Book Review

    Book review: Para Cenar Habra Nostalgia Whenever you come across a book that shifts your whole outlook on your cultural identity, it is...
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    Clapback Season with Melania Luisa Marte’s “Mela”
    DWA Team
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 3 min