Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and the editor of Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984-1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020), a collection of unpublished lectures by Audre Lorde.

Castro is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin/Germany, 2018) and the recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship (Naropa University, 2019). Her essay El Nuevo Sublime was a finalist for the National Award for Essays and Criticism in Colombia (Reconocimiento Nacional a la Crítica y el Ensayo, 2019).

Among others, her words have been hosted by Amant Foundation, De Appel, Dia Art Foundation, MACBA, Social Text, The Poetry Project, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Université des Antilles, and Yale University.