Esmeralda Santiago is the author of three best-selling memoirs: When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, The Turkish Lover; and of the novel, América's Dream.
With Joie Davidow, she has edited two anthologies of Latino literature:
Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share their Holiday Memories and Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember their Mothers.
Santiago is also an award-winning screenwriter and essayist. Her adaptation of Almost a Woman for PBS Masterpiece Theatre: The American Collection won a George Foster Peabody Award.
Her profiles and opinion pieces have been published in magazines like Sports Illustrated, Latina, House & Garden, and Good Housekeeping as well as in newspapers like The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and El Nuevo Día.
Esmeralda Santiago was a participant in the 2006 World Voices Festival.
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