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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
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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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, her M.S. in Radio and Television from the
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at
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, and her Ed.D. in Educational Technology from
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. During the 1980s, Matos Cintrón taught television production courses at the
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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
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. Her passion for Puerto Rican and
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, and Multimedia Technology culminated with the research, production and publication of the multimedia
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''Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years''. In 2001, she moved to
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, where she works as an Instructional Designer.


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 Yolanda 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
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." 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.


See also

* List of lesbian literature *
List of Puerto Rican writers This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, short story authors, and playwrights. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and long-term residents or immigrants w ...
*
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References


Sources

* 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 20th-century Puerto Rican writers 21st-century Puerto Rican women writers 21st-century Puerto Rican writers Syracuse University alumni People from Santurce, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican LGBTQ poets