Odilia Rivera-Santos


Biography

Odilia Rivera Santos was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and moved to the Bronx at six years of age. She holds a degree in Comparative Literature, with a minor in Creative Writing, from Smith College. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, in Spanish and English have appeared in various print and online magazines. Ms. Rivera-Santos is a writer, editor, translator and creative writing instructor. She lives in New York City and is thinking of getting a teacup chihuahua.

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Books

Latinalogue, Puerto Rican Nonfiction Part II    by Odilia Rivera-Santos
Price: $2.99 USD. 12190 words. Published on November 3, 2011. Nonfiction.

A philosophical tour through love, loss, Puerto Rican identity, social and literal suicide, survival and triumph.
Latinalogue, Puerto Rican Nonfiction Part I    by Odilia Rivera-Santos
Price: $2.99 USD. 13530 words. Published on June 27, 2011. Nonfiction.

Odilia Rivera Santos was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and moved at the age of six to the Bronx. Latinalogue is a collection of nonfiction essays in which Ms. Rivera-Santos explores loss, the experience of making the transition from one culture to another, and how she remade herself from an amalgam of experiences, failures and triumphs.

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