Mayra Santos-Febres in conversation with Adrienne Samos

We spoke with a key figure in contemporary literary production in the Caribbean: Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico), a writer and academic, winner of awards such as the Juan Rulfo Prize and the prestigious Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships. She is co-creator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Puerto Rico and founder of the Festival de la Palabra (2008-2019). As a researcher, she is an authority on the subject of African descent and racialization. Her most recent publication, La otra Julia, a work that won a Guggenheim fellowship, is a fictionalized biography of the Puerto Rican poet and journalist Julia de Burgos. In conversation with Adrienne Samos.