Lissette Peña is a writer and poet from Puerto Rico who lives in Queens, New York. She is working on completing school as well as her first novel about the hardships and rewards of family and growing up in the 1980s in the Bronx. When not studying or writing, she works hard to be a great mom to her three beautiful children. Her first poem, “The Shallows of Water,” was published in the NYU Gallatin School’s journal, The Literacy Review (Vol. 5) in 2007. Lissette’s contribution to Submerged is a short story called “Mi Pelo, Orgullo y el Diablo (My Hair, Pride and the Devil),” a dramatic piece on hair’s potential to spark pride and inspire vivid memories. (photo credit NYU Gallatin)
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin