Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Jane Alberdeston is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico. She is co-author, with Lisa Alvarado and Ann Hagman-Cardinal, of Sister Chicas (Penguin Books/New American Library, 2006) and earned a PhD from SUNY Binghamton. Alberdeston is a Cave Canem fellow, and a former member of the Modern Urban Griots. She was born in Puerto Rico, and lived for many years in DC before returning to the island of her birth.

To read more by this author:
Three Poems, It’s Your Mug Anniversary Issue, Vol. 10:2, Spring 2009;
“Cloaked Silences in Reetika Vazirani’s Poetry,” Profiles Issue, Vol. 7:4, Fall 2006;
Five Poems, Vol. 2:3, Summer 2001.