Dorsía Smith Silva

Dorsía Smith Silva has a PhD in Caribbean literature and language. She is the author the poetry collection In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry Press, 2024). She is also the editor of the nonfiction collection Latina/Chicana Mothering (Demeter Press, 2011) and the coeditor of seven books, including Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), with Tatiana Tagirova and Suzanna Engman, and Caribbean without Borders: Literature, Language and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), with Raquel Puig and Ileana Cortés Santiago. 

Smith Silva has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She serves as poetry editor of The Hopper and is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.