Intersecting Afrofuturism, Ancestors, Feminism, and Queer Voices

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is a Puerto Rican author with an ample production of short stories and novels in English and Spanish. Arroyo Pizarro has dedicated her work to exposing Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean identities linked to her identity as an Afro-Latinx subject and feminism and LGBTTIQ+ subject. In addition to a narrative created through a realist style, her work has ventured into the paths of speculative fiction in its Caribbean Afrofuturism and the visualization of the posthuman world from Latin America.

Her work has received the National Prize of the Puerto Rican Institute of Literature (2008). Her literary production includes books of short stories, poetry, and essays published in Puerto Rico, Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Among her titles are Letter Origami (2004), Ojos de Luna (2007); the novel The Documented, winner of the 2006 PEN Club Prize; and Caparazones (2011), a novel distinguished at the Salón Literario Libroamérica in Puerto Rico. In addition, in 2012, she received the recognition from The Latina Writers Convention for her work “Los cojones de una mujer sin pecho.” Her most recent books include Las Negras (2016), TRANScaribeñx (2017), and Afroalgoritmos (2024).