Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia

As a poet, Quintero-Herencia has published several award-winning collections recognized for their rich imagery, experimental language, and exploration of Caribbean experience. His book El hilo para el marisco / Cuaderno de los envíos (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002) received the Puerto Rican PEN Club Poetry Prize. Other poetry collections include La caja negra (Isla Negra, 1996), Libro del sigiloso (Terranova, 2012), El cuerpo del milagro (Bokeh, 2016), and Minotauro en mar chiquita (La Criba, 2023). == Critical work ==

Quintero-Herencia is the author of Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana (1960–1971) (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002), a study of the intellectual and cultural debates of the Cuban Revolution, which received the Premio Iberoamericano from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). His second major book, La máquina de la salsa: Tránsitos del sabor (Vértigo, 2005; revised and expanded edition, Almenara Press, 2021), examines the aesthetics and politics of salsa as a poetic and sensorial machine. Later works include La hoja de mar (:) Efecto archipiélago I (Almenara Editores, 2016) and De la queda(era): Imagen, tiempo y detención (La Criba / Editorial El Cangrejo, 2021). He is currently completing Palabra al mar (§) Efecto archipiélago II. Quintero-Herencia has also edited Caribe abierto: Ensayos críticos (Iberoamericana / Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2012) and Desistencia y polémica en el Caribe: Imagen, crítica, política (Almenara, 2024). == Recognition and fellowships ==

Quintero-Herencia has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña / National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work engages modern and contemporary Latin American literature, Puerto Rican and Cuban letters, Caribbean poetics, literary theory, and the relationships between writing, politics, and the senses. == References ==