Melissa Alvarado Sierra

Puerto Rican writer: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and travel writing.

Selected Publications

Fiction

• "My Bloody Socks" - The Atticus Review
• "Hotel La Plantación" - Catapult Magazine

Poetry

• "Outside, Isla Libertá, And Smell Of Colony" - PD Magazine
• “Solo un sueño” “Háblame del rosa” “Aclis” - Revista Kametsa

Nonfiction

• "Warrior Foods" - Orion Magazine
• "Con la Mano en el Pecho" - Puerto Rico Review
• "The Storm is Taking it All" - The New York Times
• "Hijos de Borinquen" - The Caribbean Writer
• "Why I Followed the Puerto Rican Dream" - ZORA Magazine

Travel Writing

• "Pisa: More Than a Funny Picture" - The Window Seat
• "Nice: Jewel of the French Riviera" - The Window Seat
• "Day Trips from San Juan" - Lonely Planet
• "The Ultimate World Cruise Packing List" - Royal Caribbean

About Me

I’m a Puerto Rican writer with work featured or forthcoming in The New York Times, Orion Magazine, Atticus Review, Catapult, Lonely Planet and The Caribbean Writer.I contributed a chapter on environmental justice in Vieques, Puerto Rico, to The World We Need (The New Press, 2021). My book, La narrativa activista de Rosario Ferré (McGraw-Hill Spain, 2020), explores feminism and national identity in Ferré's early work.I hold master's degrees in Latin American literature and creative writing, and I graduated from the Book Project at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, where I was a fellow. I’m pursuing a Ph.D. in Caribbean literature and working on an autobiographical novel.

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