El Proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña

Sandra Maria Esteves nació en el Bronx, Nueva York en 1948. Es de ascendencia puertorriqueña y dominicana. Es una de las fundadoras del Nuyorican Poets Café (1973).

Ha dirigido programas colaborativos para the New York City Board of Education, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Caribbean Cultural Center and El Museo del Barrio, entre otros. Entre sus obras están: DivaNations (a cappella, audio cd, 2010); Wildflowers (a cappella, audio cd, 2009); Portal (Limited Editions Press, 2007); Poems In Concert (Air Loom Publications, 2006); Finding Your Way, Poems for Young Folks (No Frills Publications, 1999); Contrapunto In the Open Field (No Frills Publications, 1998); Undelivered Love Poems (No Frills Publications, 1997); Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo (Arte Público Press, 1990); Tropical Rain: A Bilingual Downpour (African Caribbean Poetry Theater, 1984); and Yerba Buena (Greenfield Review Press, 1980). Ha merecido distintos premios, entre los que destacan: a Pregones Theater/NEA Master Artist Award, 2010; the Con Tinta Award from the Acentos Poetry Collective, 2007; Poet Honoree from Universes Poetic Theater Ensemble Company, 2006; The Owen Vincent Dodson Memorial Award For Poetry from Blind Beggar Press, 2002; Arts Review Honoree from the Bronx Council on the Arts, 2001; The Edgar Allan Poe Literary Award from the Bronx Historical Society, 1992; and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1985. 
 

Fuentes consultadas

Esteves, Sandra Maria. “Autobiography of a Nuyorican by Sandra Maria”. Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150377/autobiography-of-a-nuyorican.

“History of the Nuyoricans Poets Café”. Nuyorican Poets Café, https://www.nuyorican.org/history-awards. 

“Sandra Maria Esteves”. Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sandra-maria-esteves.