Samuel Medina Miranda nació en San Juan, Puerto Rico en el 1985 y actualmente vive en el vecindario de Santurce, antiguo Cangrejos, en San Juan, ciudad capital. Es escritor, editor y diseñador de libros. Estudió en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, y en Nova Southeastern University, en Ponce. Fundó la editorial y librería Libros AC, de la cual fungió como director. Es ganador del Certamen de Poesía Interuniversitario de la Universidad de Puerto Rico de 2008 y es un graduado del programa SBA Emerging Leaders 2019 de la agencia Small Business Administration de Estados Unidos. Es autor de los poemarios Sushi (2009) y Láser (2016). Actualmente, trabaja en su primer libro de no ficción y en una novela.
“Considero que escribir es, ante todo, un proceso continuo de documentación de la memoria colectiva. Es un oficio que se lleva a cabo mayormente en soledad y en silencio. Letras Boricuas ha demostrado ofrecer luz y compañía a escritores durante este camino artístico y, por ende, arduo. Ser recipiente de la beca significa tener la oportunidad de conectar con lectores y lecturas que, de otra manera, muy posiblemente, no se habrían dado.”
Samuel Medina Miranda was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1985 and currently lives in Santurce, formerly known as Cangrejos, a neighborhood in the capital city of San Juan. He is a writer, editor, book designer and publisher. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and Nova Southeastern University in Ponce. He founded Libros AC, a publishing house and bookstore, where he served as director. He won the 2008 University of Puerto Rico’s Interuniversity Poetry Contest and a 2019 SBA Emerging Leaders Graduate of the United States Small Business Administration. He is the author of the poetry collections Sushi (2009) and Láser (2016). He is currently working on his first non-fiction book and a novel.
“Above all, I believe that writers share the responsibility of documenting collective memory. As a consequence, their craft is a never-ending process, mostly carried out in silence and solitude. Letras Boricuas has proven to provide writers with companionship and a flicker of light on this artistic—and therefore arduous—journey. Being a recipient of this fellowship means having an opportunity to connect with readers and readings that, otherwise, may not have been drawn to the page.”