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Mayra Santos-Febres

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Biography

Mayra Santos-Febres is a prize winning Puerto Rican writer, literary critic and academic. She is the author of several highly regarded volumes of poetry, including Anamú Y Manigua (1990), El Orden Escapado (1991), Boat People (1994), Tercer Mundo (2004),  Huracanada (2018), and Lecciones De Renuncia (2021). Her literary work has been translated into seven foreign languages, and a bilingual edition of Boat People was published in 2021. She is internationally educated and has won many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the 1st prize for poetry in the Revista Triptico (1991).

Years Attended

2022 Adult’s Festival Participant

Mayra Santos-Febres

2022 OCM Bocas Prize Judge, Author
Puerto Rico
Events Featuring Mayra Santos-Febres
2022
Winners' Row
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