The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Denice Frohman—poet, performer, and educator—was born in 1985 in New York City, New York. She obtained a BA in creative writing from Dowling College and a MA in Education from Drexel University. Frohman is a former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion and CantoMundo Fellow and has received residencies and awards from the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, Leeway Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Millay Colony. Her work has been published in anthologies and platforms such as The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The New York Times, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, The Adroit Journal and The Acentos Review. She’s performed at notable venues, festivals, and sites, such as The Apollo Theater, The White House, Cannes Lions Festival, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the City Hall of Philadelphia, Nuyorican Poet’s Café, and NPR Code Switch. Her significant literary influences include Willie Perdomo, Pedro Pietri, La Bruja, Lemon Anderson, Mayda Del Valle, Aracelis Girmay, Patrick Rosal, Ross Gay, and Patricia Smith, and she understands herself as part of the Nuyorican Poetry Movement and Spoken Word Movement. Frohman moved to Philadelphia in 2008, where she continues to reside.

Works Cited

Frohman, Denice. Author Questionnaire. El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña, 2024.

Frohman, Denice. Interview. Conducted by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, 25 Oct. 2021.