The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Katerina Isabel Ramos-Jordán was born in 1998 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised between Trujillo Alto and the San Juan boroughs of Río Piedras, Santurce, and Miramar, Puerto Rico. Her first book ECHOESISTEMAS /lentos cerramientos (2020) won the Center for Book Arts (NYC) Chapbook Prize and was published in collaboration with Dominican artist Erika Morillo and illustrated by Karina Aliaga. Ramos-Jordán started her BA at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Due to Hurricanes Irma and María, she was taken in by Brown University to complete her second academic year and finally finished her BA in dance and English with a concentration in Caribbean Studies at Wesleyan University, where she was a Mellon Undergraduate Fellow. Her influences are geographically and aesthetically varied, from Édouard Glissant and Alejandra Pizarnik to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Julia de Burgos, and William Carlos Williams. She understands herself as part of the experimental poetry movement. Similarly, she also writes hybrid essays. She published the poem “I seek refuge in your imaginaries” in the anthology Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2019). Currently, Ramos-Jordán resides between the towns of San Juan and Trujillo Alto and freelances as a production and casting assistant.

Works Cited

“Katerina I. Ramos-Jordan.” Center For Book Arts, https://centerforbookarts.org/people/katerina-i-ramos-jordan.

Ramos-Jordán, Katerina Isabel. Interview. Conducted by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, 21 May 2021.