Mayra Santos-Febres
Bio: Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Puerto Rico. In 1991 she received her
doctorate in literature from Cornell University, where she has since
taught as a visiting professor. She has also been a guest lecturer at
Harvard, as well as at numerous other American and European
universities, and is currently Associate professor of Literature at the
University of Puerto Rico. She has published two books of poetry to wide
acclaim, and her short stories have won many prizes, including the 1994
Letras de Oro Prize from the University of Miami, and the 1997 Juan
Rulfo Prize, awarded by Radio Sarandi in Paris. In 1997 her two
collections of short fiction were translated into English under the
title Urban Oracles.
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