Cecilia milanés ucf

Cecilia milanés
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents.
Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents.

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ABOUT ME

I was born in Jersey City to Cuban parents and grew up in Bayonne, a pennisula with the Newark Bay to the west, Kill Van Kull to the south and New York Bay to the east so I'm used to being near water; I really love NYC and every time I see the Statue of Liberty, I bust out in a big ole grin. I've lived on another, bigger pennisula--Florida for several years now.

When I lived in Miami where I went to high school and college (go Canes!), I could get to the beach in ten minutes; I'm a bit further now that I've settled in Orlando, but there are lakes, rivers and ponds all over Central Florida. My favorite beach is the beautiful National Seashore--24 miles of undeveloped, unspoiled beaches between Titusville and New Smyrna Beach.

Besides going to the beach, and reading, I also love dancing--I was once a disco queen! My family includes a college-age son, assistant professor daughter, her partner and their adorable children, my grandbabies, and my partner of 35+ years; my animal family includes

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Introduction to Latina and Latino Literature/Cecilia Rodriguez- Milanes

Cecilia Rodríguez- Milanés

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Brief Biography

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Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents. At age 14, she moved with her family to Miami where she earned a B.A. in English / Creative Writing at the University of Miami and a Masters at Barry University. She married in Miami and then moved to upstate New York where she studied writing with Toni Morrison at the State University of New York at Albany. She lives with her partner and children in Orlando where she has taught writing and literature at the University of Central Florida since 1999. Her first collection of stories, Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles was published in 2009. She was the 2010 winner of the Longleaf Poetry Chapbook Prize with her Everyday Chica; this was followed by Everyday Chica, Music and More, a poetry CD set to Caribbean music in collaboration with Kevin Meehan and Jorge Milanes. Her second collection of short stories, Oye What I'm Gonna Tell You, was publishe

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Shannon C. Ward

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 Acentos Review, Azahares, The Antonym, Kweli Journal, Guernica, Letras Femeninas, Southern Humanities Review, 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. Her chapbook Everyday Chica won the 2010 Longleaf Poetry Prize. She teaches literature and writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she lives with her family.