Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi writes cross-genre literature and Latinx philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Her masterworks include El imperio de los sueños/Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and United States of Banana (2011). Her latest project is titled Putinoika. She has published on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Machado, Lorca, and Bécquer. Her radical texts have been adapted to other genres spanning theater, chamber music, graphic novel, painting, photography, artist book, sculpture, industrial design, and urban planning. With a Ph.D. from SUNY, Stony Brook, she taught Hispanic Literatures at Rutgers, Colgate, and CUNY. She won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Puerto Rican Institute for Culture, PEN America, Cambio 16 in Spain, and the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). Her life’s work is the subject of Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer.  Born in San Juan, Braschi lives in New York.