Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was shortlisted for the 2010 PEN Bingham Award. Her second novel, A Woman of Endurance, was published in 2022 by HarperCollins and was selected to represent PR in the Library of Congress 2024 Great Books, Great Places program. Llanos-Figueroa’s work has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. The Brazilian, Portuguese, edition of A Woman of Endurance will be published in 2024.
She was a recipient of a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Fiction and the Mellon Foundation Letras Boricuas Award in 2022. Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals including Kweli Journal, Label Me Latina, The Latino Book Review, The Afro-Hispanic Review, Auburn Avenue, and Pleiades. Her work has been included in Daughters of Latin America and Indomitable/Indomables: A Multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women's Anthology (both 2023).
During her time at MacDowell, she worked on Of Mothers and Daughters, the third novel in her series. The residency afforded the silence and solitude away from her hectic Bronx life to find the clarity needed to create more work than she could have hoped.
