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Carmen R. Marín

Carmen R. Marín nació en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 18 de febrero de 1975, y se crio en Yauco. Actualmente vive en San Juan. Es escritora, editora y correctora de textos; fundadora de Con Acento; profesora de Redacción y de Escritura Creativa; y maestra de Español de escuela secundaria. Tiene un bachillerato en Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez y una maestría en Español de Binghamton University (State University of New York), además de los cursos conducentes al doctorado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas de Stony Brook University (SUNY Stony Brook). Trabajó como editora en la Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. En 2013 publicó su primer libro, el poemario Salvahuidas (Erizo Editorial). Sus más recientes publicaciones son el poemario Encamadas (Trabalis Editores, Puerto Rico, 2020) y el libro de textos híbridos Cosmogonías y otras sales (Editora Educación Emergente, Puerto Rico, 2019). Carmen sueña “con una sociedad donde la niña no tenga miedo a hablar, la adolescente no tenga miedo a perder y la mujer no tenga miedo a ganar.” Sobre ser recipiente de la beca Letras Boricuas, Carmen expresa que “cuando digo que recibir esta beca es un honor inmenso y que me ha tomado por sorpresa no es falsa modestia; habla el espanto de asumirme, viéndome en un espejo insospechado, como escritora, como poeta y como parte de un colectivo que se encarga de perpetuar la maravilla a través de la palabra, contra tanta barrera, contra tanta desidia.”

 

Carmen R. Marín was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on February 18, 1975, and raised in Yauco. She currently lives in San Juan. She is a writer, editor, and proofreader; founder of Con Acento; Writing and Creative Writing teacher; and a high school Spanish teacher. Her bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies is from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, and her master’s degree in Spanish is from Binghamton University (State University of New York). She also has courses leading to a doctorate in Hispanic Language and Literature from Stony Brook University (SUNY Stony Brook). She worked as an editor at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture Publishing House. In 2013, she published her first book, the collection of poems Salvahuidas (Erizo Editorial). Her most recent publications are the poetry book Encamadas (Trabalis Editores, Puerto Rico, 2020) and the hybrid textbook Cosmogonías y otras sales (Editora Educación Emergente, Puerto Rico, 2019).  Carmen dreams “of a society where a girl is not afraid to speak, an adolescent is not afraid of losing, and a woman is not afraid of winning.” About being named a Letras Boricuas Fellow, Carmen expresses that “When I say that receiving this fellowship is an immense honor and that it has taken me by surprise, it is not false modesty. The fear of assuming myself speaks. I see myself in an unsuspected mirror, as a writer, as a poet, and as part of a group in charge of perpetuating wonder through words, against so many barriers, against so much carelessness.”