The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Ángel Miguel Rivera Torres (Ángel Isián) was born in New York City’s the Bronx. During his early childhood years, he lived in Connecticut and Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. At the age of 15, he began writing poetry and, at 16, started considering himself a poet. In 2009, he became a part of the Liga de poetas del Sur (recently renamed the Comunidad de Literatura, Arte y Cultura del Sur or CLACS). He also placed second (2010) and first place (2011) in the Certamen de Cuento of the Inter American University in Guayama. Rivera Torres studied Languages at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. His first book was La casa de los espejos (Sello Editorial de La Liga de Poetas del Sur, 2013). His work has been published in various anthologies such as Cuerpos en la pared: antología (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015); Antología solidaria: Cuentos desde el aislamiento (Ediciones Sangrefría, 2020); No cierres los ojos: Antología de relatos de horror y terror I and II (Eikon, 2016, 2019); and El cuco te va a comer (Eikon, 2020), a short story collection published by Eikon, an independent press which he founded. 

Works Cited

Isián, Ángel. Interview. Conducted by Raquel Salas Rivera, 29 Dec. 2021.