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Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RITM Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellows develop new work while sharing their expertise and learning from the university community.
Carina del Valle Schorske, is a Puerto Rican writer and literary translator. Her essay collection, The Other Island, was recently awarded a Whiting Nonfiction Grant and is forthcoming from Riverhead. The jury described her work in progress as “poetic and politically astute…[a] profound work of cultural criticism.”
She explores intimate histories of empire, migration, and creative survival in the Caribbean and beyond. Her essays have been published in many venues including The Believer, The Common, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New Yorker online, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is now a contributing writer. Her profile of the reggaeton star Bad Bunny was featured on CBS. Her essay "Bodies on the Line," about post-pandemic dance floors in New York City, won a National Magazine Award in 2021. As a translator, Carina is guided by an ethic of mutual aid and inspired by the everyday inventiveness of people living between languages. She won Gulf Coast’s 2016 Prize (judged by Idra Novey) for her “fierce and lyrical” translations of the twentieth century poet Marigloria Palma. In 2018, she collaborated with Raquel Salas Rivera, Ricardo Maldonado, and Erica Mena on the bilingual anthology Puerto Rico en mi corazón to raise money for hurricane relief. In 2020, she translated Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s book-length essay A Mano / By Hand for Ugly Duckling Presse.
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