Background
Mayra Santos-Febres was born on January 1, 1966 in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Mayra Santos-Febres
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
In 1991, Mayra received a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
14, 2534 Av. Universidad Ste. 1401, San Juan, 00925, Puerto Rico
From 1983 to 1987, Mayra studied at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
(Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion,...)
Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.
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Mayra Santos-Febres was born on January 1, 1966 in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
From 1983 to 1987, Mayra studied at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. In 1991, she received a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
At the University of Puerto Rico, Ms. Santos-Febres worked as an internationally published author, with her stories and articles appearing in such journals and newspapers as Casa de las Américas (Cuba), Página doce (Argentina), Revue Noir (France), and the Latin American Revue of Arts and Literature (New York City). From 1990 to 2002, she also was an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico, and in 1994, she was a visiting professor at Cornell University. Currently, she teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and is the Executive Director of Festival de la Palabra in Puerto Rico.
Mayra Santos-Febres also reviews books regularly on Univision television and hosts the Radio Universidad show En su tinta. Her books of poetry include El orden escapado (Order Escaped), Tercer Mundo (Third World), and Boat People Her other fiction titles include Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (Any Wednesday, I'm Yours) and Nuestra Señora de la Noche (Our Lady of the Night).
(Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion,...)
2006In her work, Santos-Febres focuses on significant women in Puerto Rican history, such as poet Julia de Burgos, singer-turned-preacher La Lupe, and activist Lolita Lebrón. Santos-Febres also believes that nothing gives better shape to the emotional mappings of description or the subtexts of a dialog. A poetic consciousness makes any writer very aware of the sensual content and shape of every image and every word.
Santos-Febre's greatest admiration in life was the beauty of black women. She didn’t grow up with her mother telling her the standard ideal of female beauty: a blonde tall girl with pretty color eyes. Santos-Febres admired her mother’s beauty which taught her that she didn’t need to have the aspects of blonde white girls to be pretty. She believed that having a big nose, hips and being very dark like her mother was extremely beautiful.
On December 28, 2019, Mayra married Ballesta Nueve. Mayra has two children: Adiara Santana and Lucián Nazir Hernández Santosfebres.