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Ivelisse Rodriguez

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Born

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

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Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Ivelisse Rodriguez grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. in English from Columbia University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College, and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Her short story collection, Love War Stories, is forthcoming from The Feminist Press in summer 2018. Her fiction chapbook The Belindas was published in 2017. She has also published fiction in All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, Obsidian, Label Me Latina/o, Kweli, the Boston Review, the Bilingual Review, Aster(ix), and other publications. She is the founder and editor of an interview series, published in Centro Voices, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto R ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 881 ratings · 147 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Love War Stories 4.01 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories by Richard Z. Santos (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leticia Urieta (Contributor), Monique Quintana (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color by Jina Ortiz (Editor), Rochelle Spencer (Editor), Helena María Viramontes (Foreword) 4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestors by Ed Pavlić (Editor), Ed Pavlić (Editor), Ivelisse Rodriguez (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Puñado 6-A by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Ivelisse Rodriguez (Goodreads Author), Lena Yau 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Palaces Publishing Fall 2022 Fiction Anthology: Desire to Escape by Ivelisse Rodriguez (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Frederick Tran (Editor), Emily Townsend (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Belindas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fiction Issue: An Aster(ix) Anthology, December 2021: An Aster(ix) Anthology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Top 20 Quick and Easy Delicious Recipes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Love between two people is up close, disheveled - a melange of past, present, future love and acrimony. And this is how I must love my mother. Love her the way I want her to love my father again.”
― Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories

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“He is more shattered than I thought, a man made up of pieces that don't connect.”
― Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories

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“I didn't want you to be a woman. It is a terrible thing to be a woman. One day, you will thank me.”
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