Esperanza Cintrón is the author of Shades, Detroit Love Stories (Wayne State University Press, 2019), which was a 2020 Michigan Notable Book. Her short story "Shadow Dancer" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also has four books of poetry: Chocolate City Latina (Swank Press, 2005), the Naomi Long Madgett Award winner, What Keeps Me Sane (Lotus Press, an imprint of WSU Press, 2013), and Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise (Stockport Flats Press, 2014). The most recent, Boulders, was published by Chestnut Review Press in 2023. 

Her is anthologized in Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Double Stitch, Of Burgers & Barrooms, Obsidian and many others.  A native Detroiter, she was a founder of The Sisters of Color Writers Collective and the creator of its literary journal Seeds https://stars.library.ucf.edu/seeds/ [2].  A SUNY graduate, Cintrón has a doctorate in English Literature. Awards include a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Callaloo Writing Fellowships at Oxford and at Brown Universities and an NEH educator’s scholarship. Website: https://esperanzacintron.com/ [3]