Born
1965, Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo studied Law and Political Science at the
Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Poet, essayist, and literary critic, she
has been a leading editor, publisher and promoter of literary works by
Dominican women and served as Director of Research at the Dominican National
Library. Her poems have been published in Common
Threads Afro-Hispanic, Women’s Literature, Supplement 14 International Poetry,
Y vamos hacienda camino, Revista Mairena, and Confluencia. She has published seven poetry collections, including
Luna Barroca (1996), Triángulo en trébol (2001), and Contemplación (2007), as well as several
books of literary criticism and numerous essays about Dominican literature. For
her book Altagracia Saviñon o la
discontinuidad del instante, she won the Best Editor Essay Award for 1998
from the International Writers and Artists Association. She is currently the
president of the Association of Dominican Literary Criticism of
Hispanic-American Women Writers (CDLEH) and also directs the Founding Committee
of Women’s Festivals and the “Ventana” collection of the Solidarity Center for
the Development of Women in Santo Domingo. She lives in Santo Domingo, DR.
