Nemir Matos-Cintrón (born 1949) is a Puerto Rican author who resides in

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. She has published several books of poetry and parts of a novel. She has openly thematized her lesbianism in much of her work.

Life

Matos-Cintrón was born on November 19, 1949, in Santurce,

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. She received her B.A. in Humanities from the

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and later her Master's of Science from the

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at Syracuse University. During the 1980s, Matos-Cintrón taught television production courses at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. She also worked as television producer for the all news Channel 24. At the same time she collaborated as scriptwriter for the miniseries ''Color de Piel'', dealing with racial tensions in Puerto Rican contemporary society. Her television writing led her to the creation and scripting of ''Insólito'', a dramatic anthology series dealing with supernatural phenomena in the Caribbean. In the 1990s, she returned to academia, as lecturer at City University of New York. Her passion for Puerto Rican and

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, and Multimedia Technology culminated with the research, production and publication of the multimedia CD-ROM ''Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years''. In 2001, she moved to Orlando, Florida, where she works as an Instructional Designer. She has completed her doctoral dissertation on

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Literary production

In 1981, Matos-Cintrón published her first two poetry books: ''Las mujeres no hablan así'' (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981) and ''A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal'' (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981). ''Las mujeres no hablan así'', a poetic and artistic collaboration with Yoland V. Fundora, is the first openly lesbian poetry collection in Puerto Rican literature. Renewed interest in ''Las mujeres'' led to a second edition in 2010, followed by recent publications of English translations of poems from the collection in various online magazines and literary journals.Brockway, Joseph. "Two Poems: Canto a Changó/Song to Changó and Soy el principio/I Am the Beginning," ''Reliquiae'' (Vol. 9 No. 2), November 2021. A fragment of Matos-Cintrón's first novel ''El amordio de Amanda'', dealing with growing up in the 1960s in urban Puerto Rico, was included in the LGBT Puerto Rican literary anthology ''Los Otros Cuerpos'' (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Tiempo Nuevo, 2007). In 2014, Matos-Cintrón and Fundora published another collaborative collection titled ''El arte de morir y la pequeña muerte.'' This collection is the product of a 1991 art installation in San Juan, Puerto Rico and represents an homage to friends who died from AIDS, including her poem "A Manuel Ramos Otero." Also included in this work is a sketch by artist Joaquín Reyes (1949-1994) and a poem by

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, an Afro-Puerto Rican attorney, human rights activist, and feminist. ''Aliens in NYC'' (2012, Atabex), Matos-Cintrón's full-length book of poetry, deals with the subject of migration.

Works

* ''Las mujeres no hablan así.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981. Second edition, 2010. * ''A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981. * ''El arte de morir y la pequeña muerte.'' New Jersey: Editorial Atabex, 2014. * ''Aliens in NYC.'' New Jersey: Editorial Atabex, 2014.

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* Colón Zayas, Eliseo R. "Insólito y los monstruos del espectador." ''El Mundo'', ''Puerto Rico Ilustrado'', 13 May 1990, pp. 14–16. * Cordero, Margarita. "La mujer migrante." ''El Mundo'', ''Puerto Rico Ilustrado'', 13 May 1990. * Echeandía, Servando. "Sobre Nemir Matos." ''Reintegro'', April 1983, p. 12. * Matos-Cintrón, Nemir. "On Women's Experimental Film." 1990 Film Festival sponsored by the Puerto Rican Atheneum, published in ''Cineasta'', no date. * Ramos Otero, Manuel. "La luna ultrajada." ''Claridad'', Puerto Rico, 1981. * Velázquez, Rosa. "Nemir Matos Cintrón." ''Siempre'', 13–26 November 2003, p. 18. {{DEFAULTSORT:Matos-Cintron, Nemir 1949 births Living people Puerto Rican lesbian writers Puerto Rican women poets 20th-century Puerto Rican women writers 21st-century Puerto Rican women writers Syracuse University alumni People from Santurce, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican LGBT poets

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