Esperanza M. Cintron

Born: Detroit , MI
Parents: Luis, Julia
Children: Lena
Address(es):
Permanent :
Detroit , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
What keeps me sane : poems Poetry Adult Detroit : Lotus Press 2013
Chocolate city Latina: poems Michigan , Poetry Adult Jamaica Plain, MA : Swank Books 2005
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry by Melba Joyce Boyd and M. L. Liebler
- Contributor to this multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.
Michigan , Poetry Adult Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press 2001
Seeds
- Editor and creator
Adult 1991 -1992
Insights
- Editor/Writer of quarterly magazine
Adult 1989 -1990
Eberhard Reports
- Editor/Writer of quarterly informational newsletter
Adult 1986 -1987
Shards
- Collection of short works
Shades
- Novel
- Poems in such publications as Wayne Review, Feminist Women's Anthology, The Journal of The Sisters of Color, Beacon Press

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Awarded certificate for outstanding community service by the Albany Social Justice Center for work with Sisters of Color 1991
Poetry exhibited in traveling exhibit of the New York State Museum 1988 -1989
National Judith Siegel Pearson Award for poetry 1987
Cranbrook Writers Guild Scholarship in 1986 for fiction, 1987 for poetry.
- Award recvd for following years: 1986, 1987
1986 -1987
Agascha Publishing House Scholarship for fiction 1971
Full fellowship and tuition scholarships to earn a Doctor of Arts in English at the State University of New York at Albany

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctoral study in English State University of New York Albany , NY 1990
Master of Arts (M.A.) Wayne State University Detroit , MI 1982
Graduate study Memphis State University Memphis , TN 1975 -1977
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Wayne State University Detroit , MI 1974

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
English Instructor Wayne County Community College Detroit , MI 2005 -2013
Regents Fellow New York State Education Department 1988 -1990
Founding member
- A Women's Writers Collective
The Sisters of Color 1988
Administrative assistant City-County Building Detroit , MI 1984 -1987
Special events coordinator Detroit Educational Television Foundation Detroit , MI 1982 -1984
Teacher Highland Park Continuing Education Highland Park , MI 1981 -1985
Program coordinator The University of Michigan, Department of Continuing Education Ann Arbor , MI 1980 -1981
- Active in pollitical campaigns
- Various community involvements such as teaching workshops on radio scriptwriting
Lecturer, Instructor in college and university Albany and Loudonville , NY
- Many performances of creative work Cranbrook Writers Guild Benefit Birmingham , MI
Various teaching positions Detroit Institute of Technology Detroit , MI
Various teaching positions Detroit Public Schools Detroit , MI
Individual Artists' Grant Michigan Council for the Arts MI

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Birth Date - Oct 31

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