Mar铆a Luisa Arroyo Cruzado
A multilingual Boricua poet of color, intersectional feminist educator, essayist, visual artist, and mother, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado lives in Binghamton, New York, where she is joyfully pursuing her PhD in comparative literature at Binghamton University. Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (2024), resistencia: resilience: a collection of poems and essays (2023), Destierro Means More than Exile (second revised edition 2024), and Gathering Words: recogiendo palabras (2008) are among her book publications. Her most recent work can be found in Multiplicity and The Art of Touch anthology, and is forthcoming in Gatherings: an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist journal. María, poet laureate of Springfield, Massachusetts, from 2014 to 2016, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Smith College in May 2024.
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