Alex Sastre-Rivera is a poet, student and teacher from Puerto Rico. He is currently Ph.D. candidate at Emory University’s Comparative Literature program, where he studies matters of Caribbean tourism, colonial histories, and queerness. He majored in English Literature and have a certificate in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. During his undergrad, Alex was Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and was one of the founders of Fractal Puerto Rico, an educational and artistic project. His poetry book ‘pequeñas catastrofes’ was published in March 2021 by La Impresora. In his free time, Alex enjoys reading multiple books at the same time and drinking good coffee.
