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Melissa Coss Aquino, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, is a writer and an Assistant Professor in the English department at CUNY, Bronx Community College where she also serves as the co-faculty advisor for Thesis, the Literary Journal of BCC. Her work has been published in Callaloo, and The Fairy Tale Review, Hippocampus and Centro, The Journal for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Her book Citizen, Radical, Rebel and Voice: 100 years of Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York is under contract and set to be published in 2018. Her fiction is currently represented by Soumeya Bendimerand Roberts at HSG. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at City College, is ABD at the CUNY Graduate Center in English, is an alumn of VONA and serves on the board of directors of AROHO ( A Room of Her Own). View all posts by mcossaquino