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Anthologist: Raúl Rubio
Editors: Alessandra D’Agruma, Juanita Mejía Gutiérrez, Thomas Taylor
Editorial Isla Negra, 2025
ISBN 978-9945-666-04-5
A Spanish-language creative-writing anthology edited by Professor Raúl Rubio featuring twenty-nine works (in Spanish) from across The New School community – including students, faculty, and administrators. The featured authors are primarily students from Prof. Rubio's course “Storytelling in Spanish”– which was offered multiple times over the course of the last decade. The texts span a wide-range of genres, including short stories, first-person narratives, dialogue narratives, poetic and performance texts. Illustrations accompany the three sections of the volume.
As a grass-roots New School community project, commissioned by Prof. Rubio, a university-wide Editorial Board was tasked with the organization of the anthology and the evaluation of submissions. The Editorial Board was composed of three graduate students: Alessandra D’Agruma, Juanita Mejía Gutierrez and Thomas Taylor. At the university level, Prof. Rubio and the Editorial Board commissioned an additional review of the manuscript composed by one faculty member and one member of the Academic Administration Team before submitting it to Editorial Isla Negra, the intended press.
Based in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Editorial Isla Negra is a creative and academic press established over thirty-years ago. At the press, the manuscript underwent an additional review process with feedback provided by outside evaluators. Marian Sandoval Lemus, a graduate student at the New School for Social Research was commissioned to write the introductory essay included within the book.
Authors: Alessandra D’Agruma, Ana Sofía Navia, Ashlee Valle, Elisabeth Loua, Emma Crosswait, Florence Leclerc, Helena Grande, José García Escobar, Juanita Mejía Gutiérrez, Kenneth Sousie, Luis Galli, Marian Sandoval Lemus, Mariana Calcagno, Michell Kim, Michelle McCarthy, Paloma Rodríguez, Raúl Rubio, Thais Vitorelli, Thomas Taylor, Xin (Lindsey) Ning.