![]() ![]() I used to have a spoken word organization that ran Uptown where I curated featured performers at venues like Apt 78 and Word Up Bookshop. ![]() We left our eleven-year-old sons playing Minecraft while we discussed the challenges of being a person of color in publishing, and also what we are each trying to do to change both the system and our communities.Īngie Cruz: Why don’t we start with you telling me how and why you started Dominican Writers?Īngela Abreu: I founded the organization in 2015. On a beautiful evening in Washington Heights, Angela Abreu and I met outside of Café 181 to talk about the Dominican Writers Association, Abreu’s collaboration with Word Up Community Bookshop to help launch Uptown Reads, in which my novel, Dominicana, was selected as their inaugural pick. ![]()
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