Ricardo Maldonado

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the author of The Life Assignment, the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/Collateral, and coeditor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón. Maldonado serves as President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CantoMundo, Queer|Art|Mentorship, and the T. S. Eliot and Hawthornden foundations.

Ricardo Maldonado

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