Featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics, Nancy is also profiled in Latino Leaders Magazine, Volume 7 No 6 as "one of the most celebrated members of the Puerto Rican literary movement in the Big Apple". She is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions) and editor of, if the world were mine; a children's anthology published by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). She was also an editor of Long Shot (1993 - 2004) and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years.
Nancy has toured throughout the US, Europe and in Canada as a featured poet and conference panelist; an abbreviated list includes: Club 350, Toronto Canada * Eastern New York Correctional Facility; a maximum security prison in New York * Espace Simone de Beauvoir, France * Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut * Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival * Kutztown State University, Pennsylvania * La Raza Center, San Francisco, California * New York City Book Expo * New York City Town Hall * New York University in the Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization Conference, New York * Pannonica Jazz Club, France * Rutgers University, New Jersey * The Shakespeare Public Theater, New York * The State University of Illinois * The University of Nantes, France * Wiesbaden, Germany with jazz artist Billy Bang & his Quintet.
Her work has been anthologized in, among others: Poetry After 911 An Anthology of New York Poets (Melville House); Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience- Short Fiction from Then to Now (Da Capo Press); Me No Habla with Acento Contemporary Latino Poetry (Rebel Satori Press); Kiss the Sky: Starring Jimi Hendrix (Paycock Press); Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community (Agate Publishing); Bowery Women Poems (YBK Publishing); In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief (Foothills Publishing and Sherman Asher Press); From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (Thunder’s Mouth Press); Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American (Penguin); Changer L’Amérique Anthologie De La Poésie Protestataire Des USA (Maison De La Poésie) and ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (Henry Holt).
A number of literary magazines have also published her work such as: Columbia University’s City Magazine; El Boletin del Centro from Hunter College-CUNY; GARE MARITIME published in France; New York University publications, Brownstone Magazine, The Gallatin Review and Black Renaissance Noire; and independent magazines, A Gathering of the Tribes; Drum Voices; The Paterson Literary Review; and Rattapallax, among others.
The author and director of 7 theatre plays, Nancy’s theatre work has been produced in such venues as The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). Several were produced throughout the US and Puerto Rico and one of the plays was co-authored with renowned writer Pedro Pietri.
Nancy’s film credits include two video productions in the Poetry Spots series directed by Bob Holman and the documentary film, Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization directed by Jayne Cortez.
She has served as a panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Nancy is the co-founder of El Instituto de Cultural Lola Rodriguez de Tío located in New Jersey. She holds a doctoral degree from Binghamton University.
