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Wendy Angulo is a New York City born Latina, raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Wendy is a mother, writer, lawyer and the founder of Wendy Angulo Productions, an organization whose goal is to support, encourage, and promote poetry and visual arts in the borough of Queens. Wendy, re-discovered her love for writing in the summer of 2011 after attending a spoken word event in Queens. She then joined the New York City Latina Writers Group where she has been an active member and has taken on the role as the organization’s Program Director. Wendy is an essayist who is currently working on her Memoir. She has read her work at several venues throughout New York City, including Nuyorican’s Poets Cafe, East Harlem Cafe, Sankofa Sisterhood, Camaradas and has been published in the online journal Mom Egg Review; she is a 2016 VONA alum and the sole creator/curator and producer of Canvas of Words, an art and poetry showcase that birthed of Wendy’s desire to bring the arts back to her beloved borough of Queens. Wendy continues to scout for new talent and build new connections to perpetuate the arts and strengthen the literary community.

Bruja Book Review by Michelle Guerrero-Henry

In Bruja, Wendy C. Ortiz allows us into the most private corners of her mind. Published in October 2016, this is not quite an exploration of her dreams, as she doesn’t give her interpretation of them, and not quite a memoir but a dreamoir. The dreamoir is defined as “a narrative derived from the most malleable and revelatory details of ... Read More »

Inkle & Yarico Book Review by Sharon Shaw

The author, Beryl Gilroy explores chattel slavery, classicism, identity and feminism in the novel. Thomas Inkle is the protagonist you hate but respect. He is a young man from the British upper class that believes he comes from a superior race/nation. Inkle states “our civilization is superior and permanent. I hold others to be ephemeral-and at times grotesque that is ... Read More »

The Next-Generation Self-Help Book For Girls by Nia Ita

Kenia Nunez, Corona, Queens native and Latina wellness coach, published her first book in 2014. Surrendering: When Pain is Transformed Into Extraordinary Blessings was a collection of musings about Kenia’s awakening to her purpose in life after losing her husband to cancer. She was left to raise three children and face the ongoing depression she had been running from for ... Read More »

Hunger Book Review by Andreina Garcia

Hunger, written by one of my favorite authors Roxane Gay, is a memoir, where she lets us in what her life has been like living and navigating this world as heavyset woman. “This is a memoir of my body. My body was broken. I was broken. I did not know how to put myself back together. I was splintered. A ... Read More »

The Musa Writing and Reading Group

A year ago, after finishing my second session of Writing our Lives with Vanessa Martir and returning from VONA I decided to create a book and writing club: The Musa Writing and Reading Group, a group that will not only benefit me as a writer but that will benefit other women who like me are writers but wear numerous hats ... Read More »

ELEPHANT

Elephant NYC

For the past year I have been working with a group of incredible women on a project about street harassment titled Elephant. The idea behind this video is to reclaim our bodies> Elephant a short choreo-film entirely produced by women of color against street harassment. The video is the collective effort of a group of interdisciplinary artists from New York ... Read More »

Grief & The Loss of My Mother#52essays2017

January is a rough month for me. I lost my mother January 25, 2002 four days after her 56th birthday, when she lost her battle with colon cancer, the grief is twice the weight. For the past 15 years, January reminds me of not being able to celebrate my mother’s birthday among other milestones and it is also the reminder ... Read More »

Loving My Body vs. Body Shaming#52essays2017

Last Summer, my friends and I along with each other’s families got together for our annual beach day. Our friendship has transcended the test of time and now we have become family.  It is a tradition we began building about four or five years ago. We are now parents and our kids get along so well they call each other ... Read More »

Our CEO Wendy Angulo Joins The Queens Book Festival

What’s New ? Our CEO and founder Wendy Angulo has joined the Queens Book Festival as their Latino Community Liaison and Communications Director. Read below this exclusive interview with our partners Sofrito for your Soul. http://www.sofritoforyoursoul.com/the-queen-of-queens-wendy-angulo-joins-the-queens-book-festival/ Read More »

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