Peggy Robles-Alvarado

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is Dominican and Puerto Rican Abuela born in Washington Heights who now lives in the Wakefield section of the Bronx and credits the borough for making her an artist. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner, and a BRIO award winner. She has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Homeschool, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, VONA and The Kweli Journal. She is also an International Latino Book Award winner. This tenured New York City educator with advanced degrees in elementary, bilingual education, and an MFA in Performance Studies is also an initiated Lucumí and Palo Priestess. She was featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, Poets & Writers, The Black Spirit Solstice Summit, and The BADD! ASS Women Festival. She’s authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), Homage To The Warrior Women (2012), and ​through Robleswrites Productions ​created The Abuela Stories Project (2016) and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse (2017). Her poetry appears in the anthologies Escape Wheel (2020), The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020), What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019), Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation (2019), Latinas: Voices of Protest and Struggles (2017), ¡Manteca!- Afro- Latin@ Poets (2017) and The Other Side of Violet (2017). She directed sold-out performances of the poetic play Live Big Girl (2017) as well as a staged performative reading of her latest anthology. Currently, she facilitates a highly popular virtual writing workshop titled Line Breaks and Bronx Beats and continues to curate writing and performative experiences through Robleswrites Productions. For more please visit Robleswrites.com.