1. Nicky Cruz (1938)

Puerto Rican Writer

Christian evangelist and former gang member who authored the autobiographies Run Baby Run and Soul Obsession.

2. Giannina Braschi (1953)

Puerto Rican Writer

A Puerto Rican writer, she is best known for her 1998 novel, Yo-Yo Boing!, which is written in Spanglish. Her other works include Empire of Dreams (post-modern poems) and United...

3. Shaggy Flores (1973)

Puerto Rican Writer

Shaggy Flores is a Nuyorican poet writer and African Diaspora scholar who forms part of the Nuyorical literary movement.

4. Aurora Levins Morales (1954)

Puerto Rican Writer

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.

5. Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier (Unknow)

Puerto Rican Writer

Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier was a Puerto Rican poet.

6. Concha Meléndez (1895)

Puerto Rican Writer

Dr. Concha Meléndez was an educator poet and writer. She was the first woman to belong to the Puerto Rican Academy of Languages.

7. Nemir Matos-Cintrón (Unknow)

Puerto Rican Writer

Nemir Matos-Cintrón is a Puerto Rican author who resides in Florida. She has published several books of poetry and parts of a novel. She has openly thematized her lesbianism in...

8. Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (1895)

Puerto Rican Writer

Mercedes Negrón Muñoz a. k. a. Clara Lair was a poet whose work dealt with the everyday struggles of the common Puerto Rican.

9. Victor Hernández Cruz (1949)

Puerto Rican Writer

Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet who in 1969 became the first Hispanic to be published by a mainstream publishing house when Random House published his poetry book...

10. Clemente Soto Vélez (Unknow)

Puerto Rican Writer

Clemente Soto Vélez was a Puerto Rican nationalist poet journalist and activist who mentored many generations of artists in Puerto Rico and New York City. Upon his death in 1993...

11. José Antonio Dávila (1898)

Puerto Rican Writer

Dr. José Antonio Dávila was a postmodern Puerto Rican poet.

12. Francisco Rojas Tollinchi (1911)

Puerto Rican Writer

sco Rojas Tollinchi was a Puerto Rican poet civic leader and journalist.

13. Salvador Tió (1911)

Puerto Rican Writer

Salvador Tió y Montes De Oca was a Puerto Rican poet writer and promoter of Puerto Rican culture best known for coining the term Spanglish.

14. Emmanuel Ortiz (1974)

Puerto Rican Writer

Emmanuel Ortiz is a Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American activist and spoken-word poet. He has worked with the Minnesota Alliance for the Indigenous Zapatistas and Estación Libre and as a staff member of...

15. Luz María Umpierre (Unknow)

Puerto Rican Writer

Luz María Umpierre-Herrera is a Puerto Rican poet scholarNew-humanist educator and human rights advocate who lives in the United States. She is also known as Luzma Umpierre. She is widely...

16. Rosario Ferré (1938)

Puerto Rican Writer

Rosario Ferré is a Puerto Rican writer poet and essayist. Her father Luis A. Ferré was the third elected Governor of Puerto Rico and the founding father of the New...

17. Juan Boria (1906)

Puerto Rican Writer

Juan Boria also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh was a Puerto Rican poet known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry.

18. Enrique Laguerre (1906)

Puerto Rican Writer

Enrique Arturo Laguerre Vélez was a teacher and critic from Moca Puerto Rico. His works include novels plays and a writing newspaper columns for El Vocero newspaper.

19. Pedro Pietri (1944)

Puerto Rican Writer

Pedro Pietri was a Nuyorican poet and playwright and a founder of the Nuyorican Movement. He was the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.

20. Pedro J. Labarthe (1905)

Puerto Rican Writer

Pedro Juan Labarthe López de Victoria was a Puerto Rican poet journalist essayist and novelist.

21. María Bibiana Benítez (1783)

Puerto Rican Writer

María Bibiana Benítez was Puerto Rico's first female poet and one of its first playwrights.

22. Maria Arrillaga (Unknow)

Puerto Rican Writer

María Arrillaga is a Puerto Rican poet who has been a professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She taught in the Spanish department on the Rio Piedras campus. She...