The Acentos Review

Cindy AnaCaona Peralta, barriga jarta, formerly known as Black Angel es una escritora Afro-descendiente desde la República Dominicana. Born in NYC and raised with a foot in each country, she’s an oral storyteller since birth and writing since the age of 13. As a former member of several poetry troupes, she has toured NYC schools and facilitated workshops to encourage poetry and creative writing amongst inner city youth. Sharing words at prison facilities, including Eastern Correctional Facility and Riker’s Island, she’s a griot who champions change. Her style is said to be brutally honest and shedding light where lies proliferate, unafraid of controversy and striving to shock her audience into realizing the truths that she has come to understand are unavoidable. She has been published in two performative anthologies Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse, as well as Thinking In Full Color, both written entirely by women of color. She is also Director of Community Outreach for the non-profit organization Bronx Bound Books. A mobile bookstore providing fee or low cost books and services to the community most in need. When not writing and being a mother to two incredible young scholars, she can be found procrastinating on social media via Facebook (facebook.com/blackangeldapoet) or Instagram (@anacaona514) Pa’ q’ lo sepa