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PUBLISHED WORKS

Literary Criticism - Collected Essays

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
by John T. Maddox IV
February 2023

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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
by Sarah Quesada
Duke University, North Carolina

November 2022

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Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American: Blackness, Religion, Immigration
by Bonnie S. Wasserman
May 2022

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Black Women’s Literature
of the Americas 
Griots and Goddesses

by Tonia Leigh Wind 
November 2021

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Memory and Revisionist Work in Daughters of the Stone
by Keishla Rivera-Lopez
 
Fall 2021

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Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writing: Subversions in the Flesh

by Roberta Hurtado

June 2019

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Black Writing, Culture, and the

State in Latin America

ed. by Jerome C. Branche

November 2015

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Literary Criticism - Individual Articles

Decolonial Resilience: Resistance and Healing in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Fiction
by Roberta Hurtado

Label Me Latina/o Special Issue:

Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance
Summer 2017, Volume VII

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Flipping the Script: Memory, Body and Belonging in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone
by Christina Lam

Label Me Latina/o Special Issue:

Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance
Summer 2017, Volume VII

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"UNDESIRABLE WOMEN?" Afro—Puerto Rican Mother-Daughter Relationships and Puerto Rican Heritage in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's "Daughters of the Stone" 
by Christina Herrera

Chicana/Latina Studies
Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 2012)
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)

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“Uprising Textualities of the Americas:

Slavery, Migration and the Nation in  

Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Women’s Narrative” 

by Lesley G. Feracho

Published in: Black Writing, Culture and the State in Latin America ed. by Jerome Branche

Vanderbilt University Press: Nashville, 2015. 127-148.

Published Chapters & Essays

Finding Completeness

LaLiibreta.online Issue #6

January 30, 2023

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A Woman of Endurance

Hobart Festival of Women Writers

June 2022

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The Arrival, 1951

Big City Lit

November 2019

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Turbulence

Bronx Weekday Magazine/This is The Bronx

March 7, 2019

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Women Authoring Change

Hedgebrook

October 2019

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Reclaiming My Journey

Auburn Avenue

Winter 2017

 

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Back to the Field

Label Me Latina/o Special Issue:

Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance
Summer 2017, Volume VII

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Yemaya

Kweli Journal

May 2014

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What Writing Means to Me

Memorias

Revista digital de Historia y Arqueología desde

el Caribe colombiano

January 2013

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How I Write – A Writer’s Journey

Words etc Quarterly Literary Journal

October 2008

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Cuban Portraits

Narrative Magazine

September 2007

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Cuban Portraits

Rosebud Online Magazine

May 2001

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Anthologies featuring my Short Stories

Daughters of Latin America
Two Centuries of Women's Voices

August 15, 2023

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Trauma, Tresses, and Truth
Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives

November 2022

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Artists After Maria
by Jonathan Lessuck and 
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
November 2019 

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Pleiades

ed. by Ivelisse Rodriguez and

Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Summer 2019

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Latino Book Review Magazine

ed. by Gerald Padilla

May 2019

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Bronx Memoir Project: Vol 2

ed. by Charlie Vazquez

April 2018

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Puñado

Revista de Literature Latino America

(Brazil)

Vol 2, No 3, March 2018

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Afro-Hispanic Review

Vanderbilt University

​Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2017

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Latina Authors & Their Muses

ed. by Mayra Calvani

December 2015

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Bronx Memoir Project Vol. 1

ed. by Charlie Vazquez

and N.D. Ratcliff

July 2014

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Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in
New York 1980 - 2012 

ed. by Myrna Nieves
September 2012

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The Routledge Companion

to Latino/a Literature

ed. by Suzanne Bost

and Frances R. Aparicio

August 2012

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When Last on theMountain

ed. by Vicky Letterman

and Carol Roan

January 2011

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Woman's Work: Short Stories
ed. by Michelle Sewell 
July 2010

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Narrative

ed. by Tom Jenks

and Carol Edgarian

Fall 2007

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Growing Up Girl

ed. by Michelle Sewell

April 2006

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Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul: Celebrating La Comunidad Latina 
ed. by Jack Canfield,
Mark Victor Hansen, and
Susan Sanchez-Casal 
August 2005

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Defining Moments

Acts of Emancipation

Anthologies of Teachers Writings

Plymouth Writers Group

2003 and 2005

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