Taína Rodriguez Patmore

Taína Rodriguez Patmore She/Her (MFA, Fiction) is a proud Higuayagua Taíno writer whose mission is to write her people back into history. She earned her BA in English Literature from Montclair State University. Inspired by giving voice to stories from the margins, her play “Sisters Fight” was selected by the Colors of Community to be directed by Susan Aston and produced at the Harlem School of the Arts. Her writing can be found in the Yellow Arrow Journal, and the Forward to Hiwatahia: Hekexi Taíno Language Dictionary, currently part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s touring exhibit on “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance”.