The writer featured this month is from Puerto Rico. Her story, "Avalanche," was originally written in Spanish, and was submitted to the series in English. The version you will read is additionally adjusted from its original language by my edits; however, I tried to stay as true as possible to the enchanting voice of Arroyo Pizarro's narrator in translation.
Bio: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (1970, Puerto Rico) is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction published in Spanish in Puerto Rico. She is also the 2008 winner of the National Institute of Puerto Rico's Literature Prize, and the 2011 receipient of the Latino Writer Residency Award, from The National Hispanic Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Arroyo Pizarro is the Director of Puerto Rican writers participating in the second Puerto Rican Word Festival in Old San Juan and New York in 2011. Her most recent publication is a collection of poems titled Saeta, the poems (imaged left). She blogs regularly at Boreales.
From "Avalanche": She speaks first, and I lose the shyness and the suspicion about her presence. She says she does not like how the nurse looks at her. She also says that because of that, because of exactly that same look, she stabbed her husband. [Read here].
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