Lydia Cortes is a Williamsburg born Puerto Rican and the author of two collections of poetry: Lust for Lust and Whose Place. Her work appears in The Anthology of Puerto Rican Poetry: From Aboriginal to Contemporary Times, Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980–2012, Monologues From the Road, Through the Kitchen Window, Teaching With Fire, In Praise of Our Teachers and in Phati’tude Literary Magazine’s “What’s Latin A Nombre?” Both her stories and poems have been published in online magazines. A story by Cortes is also published in Shale, a collection of fiction. Cortes was awarded Fellowships at The Valparaiso Artists Retreat in Spain, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and MacDowell.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Lydia Cortes
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Charleston, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
Studios
Sorosis
Lydia Cortes worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…