Macarena Hernández
Waco, TX
Macarena Hernández is a multimedia journalist and educator based in Texas. A former editorial columnist at The Dallas Morning News and the Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for The San Antonio Express-News, she currently teaches journalism at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. While working as the Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News, Hernandez wrote One Family, Two Homelands, a personal multi-part series exploring Mexican migration through her own family’s story. The series is now taught widely in Texas schools. She’s covered US Latino issues such as immigration and education.
desveladas
desveladas is a writer collective consisting of poet Sheila Maldonado, journalist Macarena Hernández, and writer Nelly Rosario.
MoreSheila Maldonado
Artist BioNelly Rosario is the author of Song of the Water Saints: A Novel, winner of the PEN/Open Book Award.
Artist BioMacarena Hernández is a multimedia journalist and educator based in Texas.
Artist Biodesveladas: visual conversations from the americas was conceived as multimedia conversations among three “over-documented daughters of the Americas”: poet Sheila Maldonado, journalist Macarena Hernández, and writer Nelly Rosario. Their cultural roots are in the United States, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The chosen name of the collaborative emerged from the artists’ many desvelos (Spanish for all-nighters) spent discussing abstract and concrete borders encountered throughout their collective writing and teaching experiences. Included in the proposed multimedia project is work on a fotonovela; this collaborative graphic novel in photos also draws from collected video interviews, maps, primary documents, illustrations, and writings. desveladas has presented at Princeton University and for Kweli and Asterix journals in partnership with The New York Times African Heritage Network.
desveladas
desveladas is a writer collective comprising poet Sheila Maldonado, journalist Macarena Hernández, and writer Nelly Rosario. Their cultural roots are in the United States, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The chosen name of the collaborative emerged from the artists’ many desvelos (all-nighters) spent discussing abstract and concrete borders encountered throughout their collective writing and teaching experiences. Included in the proposed multimedia project is work on a fotonovela, a collaborative graphic narrative in photos that draw from collected video interviews, maps, primary documents, illustrations, and writings. desveladas has presented at Princeton University and for Kweli and Aster(ix) journals in partnership with The New York Times African Heritage Network.
Sheila Maldonado
New York, NY
Sheila Maldonado is a writer of prose and poetry, and she teaches creative writing at the City University of New York. Her debut poetry collection, one-bedroom solo, was published in 2011 by Fly by Night Press. The work tells Maldonado’s personal story through shifting ideas about self and home. She teaches creative writing at The City University of New York and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She holds degrees in English from Brown University and poetry from The City College of New York.She lives in a one-bedroom in uptown Manhattan where she is working on a new book of poems and an ongoing project about a lifelong obsession with the ancient Maya.
Nelly Rosario
Williamstown, MA
Nelly Rosario is the author of Song of the Water Saints: A Novel, winner of the PEN/Open Book Award. Her fiction and nonfiction works have been published in various anthologies and journals. Rosario holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Latina/o Studies Program at Williams College.