Monday, October 28 2024, 5 - 6:30pm MLC 248 Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa Artist's Website Artistic Biography Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. As a child, she was sent to live with her grandparents where she was introduced to the culture of rural Puerto Rico, including the storytelling that came naturally to the women, especially the older women, in her family. Much of her work is based on her experiences during this time. Her first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was shortlisted for the 2010 PEN Bingham Award. The 2020 self-published trade paperback edition won the 16th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards for Multicultural Fiction. She has been awarded the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction and the Mellon Foundation Letras Boricuas Award in 2022 among other literary recognitions. Her work has appeared in literary journals, including Kweli Journal, Label Me Latina, The Latino Book Review, Pleiades, The Afro-Hispanic Review, Auburn Avenue, and Pleiades. She has contributed to several anthologies, including Breaking Ground: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York City 1980-2012, Latina Authors and Their Muses, Trauma, Tresses and Truth, and Daughters of Latin America. Ms. Llanos-Figueroa’s second novel, A Woman of Endurance, (Spanish edition: Indómita), was published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins in Spring 2022. The paperback edition of A Woman of Endurance was published in Spring 2023. The Brazilian Portuguese edition will be published in 2024. This event is co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Department of Romance Languages, and LACSI
