The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Cristina Pérez Díaz is a poet, editor, and translator born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, in 1985. She holds a PhD in classics at Columbia University, an MA in philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a MA in classics from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Pérez Díaz is the author of From the Founding of the Country (La Secta de los Perros, 2022) and the English translation of Antígona by José Watanabe (Routledge, 2023). She was a Public Humanities Fellow for the New York Council for the Humanities and a Mellon Fellow for Public Engagement for the Center for the Humanities at CUNY between 2015 and 2016. Pérez Díaz is a weekly contributor for the En Rojo section of Periódico Claridad, with her column “Miel que me das,” which features her translations from ancient Greek. Her play Western, A Play Staging Antigone and Her Brothers was produced in 2016 in collaboration with the Caborca theater company at El Flamboyán in New York. She is the founding editor of The Puerto Rico Review. Her work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Asymptote, Periódico de Poesía, Eterna Cadencia, and Queen Mob’s Teahouse, among others. 

Works Cited 

“Cristina Pérez Díaz.” Distrópika, 4 Sept. 2021, www.distropika.com/post/cristina-p%C3%A9rez-d%C3%ADaz. Poems by the author and biography.

“Cristina Pérez Díaz.” Words Without Borders, wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/view/22339/.

“Cristina Pérez Díaz.” The Center for the Humanities, centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/cristina-p%C3%A9rez-d%C3%ADaz.

Pérez Díaz, Cristina. Interview. Conducted by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, 6 Dec. 2021.