Nelly Rosario (born 1972) is a

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novelist and creative writing instructor in the Latina/o Studies Program at Williams College. She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Williamsburg section of

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. She earned an SB in civil/environmental engineering from

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and an MFA in creative writing from

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.Nelly Rosario
at Penguin Random HHouse She has taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University, the MFA Program at Texas State University, and was a visiting scholar in the Comparative Media/Writing Program at MIT. Her fiction and creative nonfiction work has appeared in various anthologies and journals. After the debut of her novel ''Song of the Water Saints,'' Rosario was described by

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), '' In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' ...

as "a Caribbean

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Awards and honors

* 1997: Winner,

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Award in Fiction * 2001: Named a "Writer on the Verge" by the ''

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'' Literary Supplement * 2002: Winner,

PEN Open Book Award PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing i ...

* 2003: Finalist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction * 2008: Recipient, The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award for Fiction *2015: Recipient,

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Award

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosario, Nelly 1972 births Living people American writers of Dominican Republic descent Dominican Republic emigrants to the United States MIT School of Engineering alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Texas State University faculty