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Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and literary critic. In 2018, they were named the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for a two-year term. The following year they became the inaugural recipient of the Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of seven chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their third book, lo terciario/the tertiary (2nd ed., Noemi Press, 2019), was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was published by Birds, LLC in 2019. Their fifth book, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/ poems for the nation was the first recipient of the Ambroggio Prize (Editorial Bilingüe/ Bilingual Press, 2020). They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. During 2020, they will be growing trinitarias in Santurce as La Impresora’s first poet in residence. Please also read Raquel's essay on translation.
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