Nelly A. Rosario

Scholarship/Creative Work

Selected Publications

“Mid-Island: After Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazzthoughts.’” Sites of Memory: Toni Morrison and the Archive. Eds. Kinohi Nishikawa and Autumn Womack. Princeton University Press, forthcoming.

“Arbographies/Arbografías: Writing Roots, Land, & Sky.” With desveladas collective (Sheila Maldonado and Macarena Hernández), funded by a 2016 Creative Capital Award in Literature. De-Canon Hybrid-Lit Anthology Project. Eds. Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom. De-Canon and Fonograf Editions, forthcoming. Print.

“Pin-Stripe Alley.” Indomitable/Indomables: A Multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women’s Anthology.  Eds. Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs. San Diego State University Press, forthcoming. Originally in Dialogues Across Diasporas: Women Writers, Scholars and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation. Eds. Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah Ryan.  New York: Lexington Books, 2013: 121-130.

“Rivington Rosary.” Fourteen Days: A Novel. Ed. Margaret Atwood. Authors Guild Foundation Covid Response Fund. Harper Collins, 2024. Print.

“Δx: The Way of the Traveler.” Quislaona: A Fantasy Anthology. DWA Press, 2023.

“Umbilicus.” Daughters of Latin America [Hijas de América Latina]: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women. Ed. Sandra Guzmán. Amistad Press/Harper Collins, 2023. Print.

“On the Origins of O.” SO WE CAN KNOW: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth. Ed. Aracelis Girmay. Haymarket Books, 2023. Print.

“MedIsla.” Orion 40th Anniversary Issue (Summer 2022). Print.

“Doris Rodríguez’s MONOCORDE.” Distant Connections 3- The Lockdown Lowdown Special Issue: Women and Covid, a gendered pandemic (September 2021).

“Feedback Loop / Círculo de retroalimentación.” The Amaranta Project, Aster(ix) (Fall 2021).

“Incubation II.” Monsters of the Bronx. Ed. Ivan Vélez. Planet Bronx Productions, 2021. Print.

“Latinx + DNA: Complicando the Double Helix.” Critical Dialogues in Latina and Latino Studies. Eds. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa. New York University Press, 2021.

“Operation Granma G.” Latino Studies 19.4, Special Issue: Arts of Latina and Latino Aging (November 2021).

“Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing.” Teaching Black: Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing. Edited by Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 

“Life Beats of Dr. Diana: As Told to Nelly Rosario.” Studies in Comics 11.1–Special Issue on Comics and Education (July 2020).

“AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Years Later.” Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (2 June 2019).  

“Song of Morrison: A Eulogy.” Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (6 August 2019). 

“Do Us Part.” Everyday People: The Color of Life, ed. Jennifer Baker. New York: Atria Books, 2018.

“El canto del agua.” La nación y su escritura: Colección de voces dominicanas (1965-2017) [The Nation and its Writing: Collection of Dominican Voices (1965-2017)], eds. Carmen Cañete Quesada and Franklin Gutiérrez. Santo Domingo: Editorial Santuario, 2018.

Books

Song of the Water Saints: A Novel.  New York: Pantheon, 2002 / New York: Vintage, 2003.

El canto del agua: Una novela, trans. Patricia Antón. Barcelona: Emecé Planeta, 2003 / New York: Vintage Español, 2003 / MD: Recorded Books Audiolibros, 2003.

Editorial

Assistant Director of Writing/Web Developer, MIT Black History Project, 2013-Present

Content Editor/Web Developer, HTI Open Plaza, Hispanic Theological Initiative, 2019-2023

Content Editor/Web Developer, MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program, MIT, 2014-2023

Project Curator, Technology and the Dream Exhibit, MIT Museum, 2021-2022