Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico)
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is an award winning Puerto Rican writer. She was awarded recently with an Insituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña Literary Prize 2011 and also won the National Institute of Puerto Rican Literature Prize in 2008, the Woman Latino Writer Award Residency from National Hispanic Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2011 and the PEN Club Prize on 2010 and 2006. She is the author of Caparazones (2010), the first lesbian fiction novel written in Puerto Rico, published by Editorial Egales in Spain.
Yolanda directed the Anthology Cachaperismos, the first Puerto Rican lesbian anthology in the island published in 2010 and participates in Seasons African Edition, a Periodic Journal of the International Centre for Women Playwrights in South Africa and Pirene's Fountain Japan Anthology 2011. Arroyo Pizarro was juror of the Second Puerto Rico Queer Film Festival and Premio Iberoamericano Las Americas. Arroyo Pizarro was the Director of Puerto Rican Writers Committee participating in the Puerto Rican Word Festival 2011attended at Old San Juan and New York, she is a radio host for cultural and literature program Cooltureate at Bonita Radio, a Puerto Rican alternative streaming radio station vía internet and the Chief Editor of the literary magazine journal Revista Boreales. |
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IN THE NEWS & ON THE GO
Sampling of Book Signings & Speaking Engagements
October, 2012 Universidad FLACSO, Estudios de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador. Queer Conference September, 2012 Festival VivAmérica, Madrid “Nanoliteratura en todo su esplendor: el universo de Twitter” (Twitteratura in creative writing) September, 2012 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) de Caracas, Venezuela. Afrodescendants and the creative process April, 2012 “Slave names” University of Albany, New York and Union College, New York November, 2011 The pleasure of reading, FIL Guadalajara, México November, 2010 Technology within the creative writting process, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia |
"Raceless"
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Discover thirty-eight inspirational stories and poems by authors from all around the world. Relive their tales of hope, courage, strength and perseverance as they all unite to respond to the following: Tell us about a time in your life when you found light in the darkness.
Write for Light is a collection of true stories and poems that are touching and triumphant, bold and beautiful. We invite you to explore the extraordinary lengths people go to in order to find light in dark times. All of the proceeds from each book will go to Light for Children – a charity that helps vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Ghana. Write for Light is available in Paperback from Amazon and on the Amazon Kindle store. Please be advised that Write for Light might not be suitable for younger readers. |
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Negras...Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women (Published 2012)
These are the stories of Puerto Rican black women that took part in thousands of individual and group escapes during slavery and post-slavery on this side of the globe. They actively played central roles in actual insurrections and revolts, in a pure manifestation of their rebelliousness. Tired as they were of slavery and other constraints to freedom, they transgressed, infringed upon, and broke with social order.
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Carapace: A Novel (Published 2012)
Nessa has just given birth and the event triggers in her psyche a series of thoughts for every taken decision. She is a reporter from Puerto Rico, who works freelance for various media. She is also dedicated to cover ecological terrorism assignments in various parts of the world as Australia, Canada, or Costa Rica. The nature of her research sometimes put her in danger because of the complexity of the demonstrations and protests against the extinction of certain species of turtles in the Caribbean. Nessa is in love with a married photographer, Alexia, who is addicted to feng-shui. Both decided to share a relationship, which place them in the vortex of an extreme situation, until the point of the disappearance of one of them without apparent hope to meet again. Carapace is the first lesbian fiction novel written in Puerto Rico, then published by Editorial Egales in Spain.
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Saeta: The Poems (Published 2011)
Poetry about resistance and history. About been a black African descendant woman, a Puerto Rican woman, a rebel woman, a cimarrona.
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Letters To My Bully: An Anthology (Published 2012)
Edited by Azaan Kamau and Ifalade Ta'Shia Asanti
Published by Glover Lane Press
Why a Letter to My Bully? Every day in America, 160,000 students miss school due to bullying. According to reports by the Secret Service, two-thirds of school shootings are motivated by bullying. A whopping 43% of middle school children avoid the bathroom and locker rooms at all costs due to certainty of being bullied. And finally, the number one reason for suicides among youth ages 11-16 is bullying. Glover Lane Press’ historical anthology, Letters to My Bully, not only gives victims of bullying an outlet to express the impact of bullying in their lives, contributors speak on solutions to the problem and offer healing advice to survivors.
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon
Published by Glover Lane Press
Why a Letter to My Bully? Every day in America, 160,000 students miss school due to bullying. According to reports by the Secret Service, two-thirds of school shootings are motivated by bullying. A whopping 43% of middle school children avoid the bathroom and locker rooms at all costs due to certainty of being bullied. And finally, the number one reason for suicides among youth ages 11-16 is bullying. Glover Lane Press’ historical anthology, Letters to My Bully, not only gives victims of bullying an outlet to express the impact of bullying in their lives, contributors speak on solutions to the problem and offer healing advice to survivors.
Self-published, available on Kindle at Amazon