Biography
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents. Educated in Miami and New York, her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including Southern Humanities Review, Flash Fiction, Saw Palm, Literary Mama, Kweli Journal, Guernica, and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. Her short story collections, Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You (2015) and Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles (2009), were #4 and #5 on the Guardian’s list of ten of the best books to help understand Cuba. Everyday Chica, winner of the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Prize was followed by Everyday Chica, Music and More, a poetry CD set to Caribbean folk music was released in 2011. She was the 2009 Theodore Morrison Fiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Education
- Ph.D. in African American Women Writers, Composition, and writing from State University of New York at Albany (1989)
- M.A. in American and English literature from Barry University (1985)
- B.A. in English, Creative Writing from The University of Miami (Coral Gables) (1982)
- A.A. in English from Miami Dade College (1980)
Research Interests
Latinx Literature, writing, women writers of color, Emergent American Literature and women's studies.
Professional Activities
Faculty advisor for Dominican American Student Association
Publications
Books
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Forthcoming
--- Oye What I'm Gonna Tell You, Ig Publishers
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Everyday Chica, Longleaf Press
- Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles, Ig Publishers
Recordings
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Everyday Chica, Music and More, Longleaf Audiobook
Awards
- 2011 Multicultural Student Center Advisor of the Year
- 2010 United Arts of Central Florida, Individual Artist Fellowship
- 2010 Longleaf Poetry Chapbook Award
- 2009 Theodore Morrison Fiction Fellow at Breadloaf Writers Conference
Courses
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| 12007 | CRW3010H | Honors Creative Writing | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Unavailable | |
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Students will engage in writing activities, assignments, workshops, and readings to provide a foundation of theory, style, and critique so that they may be able to produce work in a variety of genre. Students will provide each other peer-feedback in small group workshops as well as whole class workshops with the foundational ideas and practices by which imaginative work is done. Students will write new work in various genre to include fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and drama. |
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| 19818 | CRW4760 | Dig Storytelling Create Writer | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Unavailable | |
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Students will focus on craft-based digital storytelling practices for creative writers, using variety of media tools and technologies including photo and video essays, animation, podcasts, audio narration, and interactive stories. In this course, students will tell their stories using text and digital communication technologies to enhance the power of our work by incorporating still images, sound, video, music, audit narration, and other interactive multimedia tools. Students will create new digital work using a variety of medial tools and technologies drawn from their fiction, creative non-fiction/memoir, poetry, or drama including a final project accompanied by a multimedia presentation. |
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