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Nelly Rosario
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Nelly Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA from Columbia University, where she currently is an Adjunct Professor.
She has received numerous awards, including a 1999 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fellowship, The Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship for 1999-2000, two National Arts Club Writing Fellowships, the 1997 Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction, and the 1988 National Teachers in English Writing Award. She was named “Writer on the Verge” by the Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her debut novel Song of the Water Saints, which traces the lives of three generations of Dominican women, won a PEN Open Book Award in 2002.
She is currently at work on her second novel.
Readers & Writers
Working with young people is an important part of my activism as a writer and educator. In January of 2005, as part of the PEN “Readers & Writers” program, I had the privilege of visiting School Without Walls, an alternative high school on the George Mason University’s campus in Washington DC. The time I spent with this group of extremely sharp young people proved to be both challenging and inspiring. Their keen observations and open questioning of aspects of my work served as a continued reminder of my responsibility as a writer. In turn, I welcomed the opportunity to demystify the process of novel writing.
Published Works Include:
Fiction
• Song of the Water Saints: A Novel (Pantheon 2002; Vintage 2003)/ El canto del agua (Emecé Planeta, 2002; Vintage Español 2003)
• Excerpt: 1916. Gumbo, eds. Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday, 2003)
• Excerpt: Leila. Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction by Black Women, ed. Meri Danquah (W.W. Norton, 2003)/ nerve.com, Jun 04 2002
• Good Trouble for Lucy. Once Upon a Cuento, ed. Lyn Miller-Lachman (Curbstone Press, 2003).
Non-Fiction
• Chessin. Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting, eds. Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno (Rayo, 2004).
• On Becoming. Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation American Women, ed. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (Hyperion, 2000) / U.S. Latino Literature Today, ed. Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Longman, 2004)
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