Ayendy Bonifacio
@ayendy.bsky.social
Writer, professor, casually anxious.
Hello, friends! Edinburgh UP just released the paperback edition of Paratextuality. Use discount code PAPER30 for 30% off! 🙏🏽💜 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...
Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901
Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hello, friends! Edinburgh UP just released the paperback edition of Paratextuality. Use discount code PAPER30 for 30% off! 🙏🏽💜 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...
Honored to be included, along so many wonderful writers, in Driftwood Press’s 2026 anthology. And the cover art! Simply magic! 😍💜 www.driftwoodpress.com/our-books/dr...
Driftwood 2026 Anthology
Driftwood Press' latest anthology is filled to the brim with this year's fiction & poetry award winners—and so much more!
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November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Honored to be included, along so many wonderful writers, in Driftwood Press’s 2026 anthology. And the cover art! Simply magic! 😍💜 www.driftwoodpress.com/our-books/dr...
Today/Hoy @ 3:30! englishcomplit.unc.edu/event/lsp-sp...
LSP Speaker Series: Talk: Hispaniola Without Borders: Migrancy and Liberation in “Theresa—A Haytien Tale” (Zoom) - UNC English & Comparative Literature
Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio's discussion of “Theresa—A Haytien Tale” (1828), the first short story published in an African American newspaper.
englishcomplit.unc.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today/Hoy @ 3:30! englishcomplit.unc.edu/event/lsp-sp...
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Got to celebrate @ayendy.bsky.social getting tenure and promoted to associate professor today! Congrats, love! 🎉👏🏼💕
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Got to celebrate @ayendy.bsky.social getting tenure and promoted to associate professor today! Congrats, love! 🎉👏🏼💕
Happy Halloween! Northwestern University Press is offerring 40% off Bless Me, Papi! Halloween 🎃 👻
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy Halloween! Northwestern University Press is offerring 40% off Bless Me, Papi! Halloween 🎃 👻
When I lost my dad to glioblastoma in 2019, I turned into a little boy with my grief. Bless Me, Papi was my escape, the only place where I could summon him beyond my sadness to see Papi with all his dancing and humor and more. Preorder link is up: nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040...
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
When I lost my dad to glioblastoma in 2019, I turned into a little boy with my grief. Bless Me, Papi was my escape, the only place where I could summon him beyond my sadness to see Papi with all his dancing and humor and more. Preorder link is up: nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040...
Review and preorder: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
October 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Review and preorder: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Mi gente!
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for early reviewers to help spread the word.
Hit me up if you are by emailing me at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thanks so much for your support! 💜📚
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for early reviewers to help spread the word.
Hit me up if you are by emailing me at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thanks so much for your support! 💜📚
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Mi gente!
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for early reviewers to help spread the word.
Hit me up if you are by emailing me at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thanks so much for your support! 💜📚
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for early reviewers to help spread the word.
Hit me up if you are by emailing me at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thanks so much for your support! 💜📚
Thank you, INSURRECT! for publishing this piece—a smaller part of my new book project.
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
Colonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT!
“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...
www.insurrecthistory.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you, INSURRECT! for publishing this piece—a smaller part of my new book project.
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
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Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
July 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
✨ Exciting news, friends! ✨
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing it. Please email at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [.] com if interested .
Thank you for helping me spread the word! 💜📚
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing it. Please email at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [.] com if interested .
Thank you for helping me spread the word! 💜📚
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
✨ Exciting news, friends! ✨
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing it. Please email at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [.] com if interested .
Thank you for helping me spread the word! 💜📚
My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing it. Please email at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [.] com if interested .
Thank you for helping me spread the word! 💜📚
I’m ecstatic to share a chapter from my new book project on Hispaniola and the U.S. Press as part of the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Event details here: lsp.unc.edu/event/the-la...
Event details here: lsp.unc.edu/event/the-la...
The Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series Presents: “Hispaniola Without Borders: Migrancy and Liberation in ‘Theresa—A Haytien Tale'” with Ayendy Bonifacio
lsp.unc.edu
September 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m ecstatic to share a chapter from my new book project on Hispaniola and the U.S. Press as part of the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Event details here: lsp.unc.edu/event/the-la...
Event details here: lsp.unc.edu/event/the-la...
¡Wow! What a lovely first review for Dique Dominican!
“A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
“A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
¡Wow! What a lovely first review for Dique Dominican!
“A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
“A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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We’re three thousand dollars away from this weekend’s goal. Please donate if you can. Any bit helps. #solidarity #resist
Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
Rapid Response Emergency Fund
🌟 Join us in solidarity and resistance! 🌟We are calling on all our allies to take part and make a contribution to our Rapid Response Emergency Fund today. Your support will directly assist detained fa...
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August 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We’re three thousand dollars away from this weekend’s goal. Please donate if you can. Any bit helps. #solidarity #resist
This plátano poem! By Malcolm Friend! www.cincinnatireview.com/samples/plat...
"Plátano Purchasing Theory" by Malcolm Friend
On the occasion of a Giant Eagle employee double-checking to make sureI rang the right item up at self-checkout
Truth: Plátanos are the only produce item I know the PLU code for (4235). Lie: It...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This plátano poem! By Malcolm Friend! www.cincinnatireview.com/samples/plat...
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“I loved my father. But behind the canopy of love is a trunk of hate, the bark and crack of pain, anger, and violence that love often conceals in its shadow. I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.”
Thank you to Dominican Writers for making the Preface for Dique Dominican available. dominicanwriters.substack.com/p/the-inheri...
The Inheritance of Anger
Preface of Dique Dominican by Ayendy Bonifacio
dominicanwriters.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“I loved my father. But behind the canopy of love is a trunk of hate, the bark and crack of pain, anger, and violence that love often conceals in its shadow. I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.”
Thank you to Dominican Writers for making the Preface for Dique Dominican available. dominicanwriters.substack.com/p/the-inheri...
The Inheritance of Anger
Preface of Dique Dominican by Ayendy Bonifacio
dominicanwriters.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thank you to Dominican Writers for making the Preface for Dique Dominican available. dominicanwriters.substack.com/p/the-inheri...
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I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1
May 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1
Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
July 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...
Dique Dominican — Unsolicited Press
Dique Dominican is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child. Wi...
www.unsolicitedpress.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...
Mi gente! The expanded edition of Dique Dominican—with a new introduction and conclusion chapters—has a cover! Pre-Orders will be available July 15, 2025! @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Mi gente! The expanded edition of Dique Dominican—with a new introduction and conclusion chapters—has a cover! Pre-Orders will be available July 15, 2025! @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
I had the honor of working with The Blade to showcase the rich past and present of poetry in the northwest Ohio region. The final product is a page styled after the nineteenth-century press, which regularly featured poems.🗞️ 📰
May 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I had the honor of working with The Blade to showcase the rich past and present of poetry in the northwest Ohio region. The final product is a page styled after the nineteenth-century press, which regularly featured poems.🗞️ 📰