I’m a Boricua, a professor of Spanish American literature and culture, in love with the literature and culture of the place where I was born, the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico.
I came to the mainland for college, in 1980, and have made my home wherever my studies and work have taken me: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, New York, and Tennessee.
I am happily married to Kelly, a philosopher, mystery writer, and a native of the Northwest (North Idaho and Montana), where we go every summer to visit family and live precious months in our log cabin overlooking the beautiful lake Pend Oreille.
I’ve published some academic books and articles, but my passion has always been to write stories, in Spanish and English, about my past and my present, about the place where I’m from, about the place where I now live, and about the books that I read.
I hope Boricua in TN will be interesting to readers who are travelers, like me, between different spaces, cultures and languages.