Roque Salas Rivera
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (born 1985) is a bilingual
Puerto Rican poet who writes in Spanish and English, focusing on the experience of being a migrant to the United States, the colonial status of Puerto Rico, and of identifying as a queer Puerto Rican and Philadelphian of
non-binary gender. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and was selected as the fourth
Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2018. He currently lives in Puerto Rico.
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