Nelly Rosario
Nelly Rosario is the author of Song of the Water Saints: A Novel, winner of a PEN/Open Book Award. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction and creative nonfiction work appears in various journals and anthologies, including Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (Amistad Press/Harper Collins, 2023), Critical Dialogues in Latina and Latino Studies (New York University Press, 2021), and Teaching Black: Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). She has been on faculty at Texas State University-San Marcos, Medgar Evers-CUNY, The City College of New York-CUNY, Columbia University, and was a Visiting Scholar in the MIT Comparative Media/Writing Program. Rosario has served as Assistant Director of Writing for the MIT Black History Project and as founding content editor/webmaster for HTI Open Plaza. Currently, Rosario serves as Chair and Associate Professor in the Latina/o Studies Program at Williams College.
