The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Mónica A. Jiménez was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and grew up in Houston, Texas. She is a poet and academic. She holds law degree and PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has received fellowships from Canto Mundo, Ford Foundation, and Letras Boricuas. Jiménez is the author of Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). Her poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, sx salon, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Works Cited

“Dr. Mónica Jiménez named a 2021 Letras Boricuas Fellow in Poetry.” College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 19 Nov. 2021, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/news/dr-monica-jimenez-named-a-2021-letras-boricuas-fellow-in-poetry.

“Mónica Alexandra Jiménez.” Poetry.org, Academy of American Poets, poets.org/poet/monica-alexandra-jimenez.

“Mónica Jiménez”. African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/maj452.