Melania Luisa Marte

Melania Luisa Marte is an American writer, poet, and musician from New York who divides her time between the Dominican Republic and Texas. Her viral poem "Afro-Latina" drew a very large online audience after Instagram featured it. Her debut poetry collection, Plantains and Our Becoming, is published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint of Plume and Penguin Random House.