Esperanza Cintrón
Esperanza Cintrón is the author of Shades, Detroit Love Stories, a collection of intertwined short stories published by Wayne State University Press. Shades is a 2020 Michigan Notable Book and was a finalist in the 2020 Midwest Book Awards. Her books of poetry include Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise (2014), the Naomi Long Madgett Award winner What Keeps Me Sane (2013), and Chocolate City Latina (2005). Cintrón's work is anthologized in Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Abandoned Automobile, Of Bars & Barrooms, Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters and others. She was a Callaloo Writing Fellow at Oxford and Brown Universities, earned a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant and a Metro Times Poetry Prize. A co-founder of The Sisters of Color Writers Collective, she created and served as the editor of its literary journal. As Alegra Verde, she has had a number of romantic short stories published and translated into Italian, German and Japanese. Visit her websites for more: esperanzacintron.com and alegraverde.com.
Esperanza Cintrón
Esperanza Cintrón is the author of Shades, Detroit Love Stories, a collection of intertwined short stories published by Wayne State University Press. Shades is a 2020 Michigan Notable Book and was a finalist in the 2020 Midwest Book Awards. Her books of poetry include Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise (2014), the Naomi Long Madgett Award winner What Keeps Me Sane (2013), and Chocolate City Latina (2005). Cintrón's work is anthologized in Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Abandoned Automobile, Of Bars & Barrooms, Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters and others. She was a Callaloo Writing Fellow at Oxford and Brown Universities, earned a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant and a Metro Times Poetry Prize. A co-founder of The Sisters of Color Writers Collective, she created and served as the editor of its literary journal. As Alegra Verde, she has had a number of romantic short stories published and translated into Italian, German and Japanese. Visit her websites for more: esperanzacintron.com and alegraverde.com.