Esperanza CintronEsperanza Cintron is the author of three collections of poetry, CHOCOLATE CITY LATINA (Swank Press, 2005), What Keeps Me Sane (Lotus Press, 2013), which won the 2013 Naomi Long Madgett Award, and VISIONS OF A POST- APOCALYPTIC SUNRISE: DETROT POEMS (Stockport Flats, 2014). She was the recipient of a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, The Metro Times Poetry Prize and a 2012 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow at Brown University. Her poetry, fiction and essays appear in a number of anthologies and journals including Double Stitch (Beacon Press), Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Doubleday), Abandoned Automobile (WSU Press), 13th Moon and The Little Magazine (SUNY Press), The Latin Americanist and Hispanic Outlook. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from The University of the State of New York. While in New York, she co-founded The Sisters of Color Writers Collective and created its literary journal Seeds, which was published from 1989 to 2006. Currently, she lives in downtown Detroit where she also teaches writing and literature at a local college. Read More Read Less