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Nelly Rosario
Nelly Rosario (born 1972) is a Dominican American novelist and was a creative writing instructor in the MFA Program at Texas State University in San Marcos. Rosario moved to Brooklyn, New York at a young age and spent the majority of her life growing up in Brooklyn. Rosario has been interviewed and commented on a feeling of being stuck between two cultures, the Dominican culture she was born into and the American culture she was raised around. This has influenced her work quite a bit.

Education
Rosario graduated from MIT with a Bachelors of Art in engineering and then went on to Columbia to graduate with a Master’s of Fine Arts.

Works
Nelly Rosario has published one novel, Songs of the Water Saints. This book was published in February of 2002 by Vintage Books publishing. It is a story of 4 generations of women from the Dominican Republican, similar to Rosario. It follows the stories of this family as they eventually go to New York in search of a better life than the one they had in the Dominican Republic. The novel explores the history of the Dominican Republic through the eyes of the four generations of women telling the story. She also wrote many short stories during her time in college that received various school awards.

Teaching
Nelly Rosario has spent much her life working in colleges. She has worked as a visiting professor at Williams College, the Assistant Director of Writing at MIT, an Assistant Professor at Texas State University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at her alma matter, Columbia. She is currently a 2017-18 W. Ford Schumann Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies at Williams College.