Ayendy Bonifacio
@ayendy.bsky.social
Writer, professor, casually anxious.
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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.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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.
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I am incredibly humbled and grateful! Congratulations to my fellow poetas: winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and contributors! Palante mi gente. This is a big one. 🙏🏽💜😭🇭🇹🇩🇴
We are excited to announce our 2024 poetry open reading period results: Rebecca Pinwei Tseng’s I Hope We All Kiss at the End, Amanda Nicole Corbin’s a say in patience, Ayendy Bonifacio’s Rios are for Chivos and Eternity, and nat raum’s origin trilogy.
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February 19, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I am incredibly humbled and grateful! Congratulations to my fellow poetas: winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and contributors! Palante mi gente. This is a big one. 🙏🏽💜😭🇭🇹🇩🇴
I’m placing a new order today. Let me know if you’d like a personalized copy in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. $30 includes shipping 🙏🏽💜
February 17, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I’m placing a new order today. Let me know if you’d like a personalized copy in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. $30 includes shipping 🙏🏽💜
I’m heading to the post office and still have a few copies left. Let me know if you want one. $30 (includes shipping)
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I’m heading to the post office and still have a few copies left. Let me know if you want one. $30 (includes shipping)
Friends, join Dr. Lorgia García Peña and I today at 1:30 PM for the virtual launch of Dique Dominican. I’ll be giving away a free signed copy of the book to a lucky attendee in addition to, what I know will be, a great conversation. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
February 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Friends, join Dr. Lorgia García Peña and I today at 1:30 PM for the virtual launch of Dique Dominican. I’ll be giving away a free signed copy of the book to a lucky attendee in addition to, what I know will be, a great conversation. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
I’m enormously grateful to all those who attended the book launch for Dique Dominican as well as all who were there in spirit. Thank you so much!
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I’m enormously grateful to all those who attended the book launch for Dique Dominican as well as all who were there in spirit. Thank you so much!
¡Mi gente! I have signed copies for sale. They come with a custom Dique Dominican bookmark. Email me at ayendy9 [at] gmail, or private message me if interested. $30 (including shipping). 🙏🏽💜
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
¡Mi gente! I have signed copies for sale. They come with a custom Dique Dominican bookmark. Email me at ayendy9 [at] gmail, or private message me if interested. $30 (including shipping). 🙏🏽💜
¡Palante, mi gente!
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English Professor Explores Identity, Anger, Belonging in Revised Memoir | UToledo News
Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s “Dique Dominican” blends personal history with cultural analysis to challenge the feeling that you are not who you are “supposed” to be.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
¡Palante, mi gente!
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“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…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.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!
January 31, 2026 at 7:09 PM
“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…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.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!
It’s official! Today, Dique Dominican is out in the word! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🏽💜🥳
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January 31, 2026 at 6:19 PM
It’s official! Today, Dique Dominican is out in the word! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🏽💜🥳
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"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics."
Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": 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...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics."
Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
New poem! Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New poem! Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social
Mark your calendarios!
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mark your calendarios!
Friends! My book is 50% off today—only $12:48. I’m grateful for your support! 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 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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...
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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.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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...