Mireya Pérez-Bustillo, a native of Colombia; grew up on L.I and Queens, N.Y. Writing for her is "un canto y un tejido" where her fiction and poetry in Spanish and English search to break through silence and oppression.
Among her publications are "Latina Self-Narratives" in La mujer hispana en el mundo; "Bluey," NYU Network Journal, La picara y la dama (ediciones Universal); The female Body(Greenwood Press); and short fiction in Revista del Hada, MER VOX, among others.
She holds a Ph.D in Spanish Literature, is an Associate Professor Emerita from The College of New Rochelle, and a Coordinator of Latino Study Groups at the IRP Program at the New School University.
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She has read her work at Radio WADO "Perspectives " with Louis Reyes Rivera; WKCR "Art Waves" with Anne Cammon; Malin Falu's program, and appeared on "Poet-to Poet, Manhattan Cable and Brooklyn Across TV.
She has been awarded writing residencies at Byrdcliffe, Vermont Studio Center, NYU Faculty Resource Network and Dingle Writers in Ireland.
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Forthcoming publications include Nomad's Choir, Brownstone Poets Anthology, and New School IRP Voices, Dinner with the Muse.
