The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico in 1992. She moved to Hawai’i in 1994, the state of Georgia in 1997, and finally settled in Maryland in 1999, where she currently lives. She holds a BA in English language and literature from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Figueroa Ramírez went on to earn an MA in public policy and a graduate certificate in nonprofit management and leadership from the University of Maryland. She is the author of Coconut Curls y Café con Leche (Self-Published, 2019) and Despojo (Flowersong Press, 2020). Figueroa Ramírez was also the 2020 Burns Whiskey Poetry Slam Champion. Her work has been published in Boricua en la Luna: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Voices (2019), In Full Color: The First Five Years Anthology (2019), The Acentos Review, and Boundless Anthology (FlowerSong Press, 2020), among others. Her literary influences include Julia de Burgos, Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Perdomo, Esmeralda Santiago, Claudia Rankine, and Elizabeth Acevedo. 
 

Works Cited

Figueroa Ramirez, Tatiana. Author Questionnaire. El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña, 2024.