Melissa Coss Aquino

Dr. Melissa Coss Aquino is a Puerto Rican writer from The Bronx and an Associate Professor in the English department at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She serves as the co-faculty advisor for Thesis, the literary journal of BCC. Her work has been published in Callaloo, The Fairy Tale Review, Hippocampus and Centro.  Her book, Jesús Colón: 100 Years of A Radical Puerto Rican in New York is under contract and set to be published in 2021.  She has an essay in Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making ~ An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (2019). She received her MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY in English. She is a proud VONA, AROHO and Hedgebrook alumna. Her fiction is represented by Soumeya Roberts at HG Literary.