Nelly Rosario

Nelly Rosario (born 1972) is a Dominican American novelist and creative writing instructor in the MFA Program at Texas State University in San Marcos.

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Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in engineering from MIT and an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University.[1]

After the debut of her novel Song of the Water Saints, Rosario was described by Julia Alvarez as "a Caribbean Scheherazade."[2]

Awards and honors
  • 1997: Winner, Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in Fiction
  • 2001: Named a "Writer on the Verge" by the Village Voice Literary Supplement
  • 2002: Winner, PEN Open Book Award
  • 2003: Finalist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction
  • 2008: Recipient, The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award for Fiction [3][4]
  • 2015: Recipient, Creative Capital Award

References
  1. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26084
  2. Rosario, Nelly (2007-12-18). Song of the Water Saints: A Novel. ISBN 9780307427892.
  3. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26084
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2010-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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