Mercy Romero es escritora y profesora. Nació en Connecticut, se crio en Nueva Jersey, y vive en el Bay Area en California. Hizo su doctorado en Estudios Étnicos en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y enseña Literatura Americana y Estudios Americanos en la Universidad Estatal de Sonoma. Es autora de Toward Camden (Duke University Press, 2021), y ha publicado trabajos en revistas como Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (2019) y Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry (2017). Entre sus premios y honores, se encuentran el que la hayan nombrado becaria residente del Centro Schomburg de Investigación en Cultura Negra y del Fondo Nacional para las Humanidades- Miembro de la Fundación Ford de 2021-2022, y haber recibido el Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award de 2021. La inspiran para escribir su “curiosidad y amor por la investigación de archivos, la gente y la lengua”. Sobre ser nombrada becaria de Letras Boricuas, Romero dice: “Esta beca se siente como un recordatorio para ‘seguir adelante’”. Se siente honrada de recibir esta beca con este ánimo, y lo dedica con cariño a la memoria de sus abuelos, Margarita y Antonio López y María Mercedes y Alfredo Romero.
Mercy Romero is a writer and professor. She was born in Connecticut, raised in New Jersey, and lives in the Bay Area in California. She received a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches American Literature and American Studies at Sonoma State University. She is the author of Toward Camden (Duke University Press, 2021) and has published works in publications including Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (2019) and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry (2017). Her awards and honors include being named the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholar in Residence and the National Endowment for the Humanities-Ford Foundation Fellow 2021-2022 and receiving the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award of 2021. She is inspired to write by her “curiosity and love of archival research, people, and language.” About being named a Letras Boricuas Fellow, Romero says, “This fellowship feels like a reminder ‘to keep going.’” She is honored to receive this fellowship in this spirit and in the loving memory of her grandparents, Margarita and Antonio Lopez and Maria Mercedes and Alfredo Romero.