Sara Daniele Rivera artista, escritora, traductora y educadora cubano-peruano-estadounidense. Su obra literaria ha sido publicada en The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Solstice, Waxwing, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, entre otras antologías y revistas. En 2017 fue galardonada con el St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award, y en 2018 ganó el Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry otorgado por Solstice Magazine. En 2022 fue residente en Tin House, uno de los programas literarios más prestigiosos de Estados Unidos. Rivera es co-traductora de The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) y co-editora de Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Su primer libro de poesía, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), recibió el Academy of American Poets First Book Award en 2023. Actualmente vive en Albuquerque, Nuevo México.
The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, )
Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone—all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, The Blue Mimes is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in the states of uncertainty that define the human condition. Rivera’s poems travel ...
