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Pérez, Loida Maritza 1963-
PERSONAL: Born 1963, in Dominican Republic; immigrated to United States. Education:Cornell University, graduated 1987.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Viking, 375 Hudson, St., New York, NY 10014.
CAREER: Writer and educator.
AWARDS, HONORS:New York Foundation for the Arts grant, 1991; Ragdale Foundation grant, 1994; Pauline and Henry Louis Gates fellowship, 1996; Recognized by El Diario as one of the fifty outstanding Latinas in the United States, 1999; residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Villa Montalvo, and the Millay Arts Colony.
WRITINGS:
Geographies of Home (novel), Viking (New York,
NY), 1999.
Contributor to periodicals, including Bomb, Latina, and Callaloo.
SIDELIGHTS: Loida Maritza Pérez is a Dominican writer who came to the United States at a young age and who has lived in New York City and, more recently, in New Mexico.
She contributed to a number of periodical