abandoning the murder capital
(san pedro sula, honduras, 2013)

Sheila Maldonado is the author of the newly released poetry collection THAT'S WHAT YOU GET (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2021) as well as ONE-BEDROOM SOLO (Fly by Night Press / A Gathering of the Tribes, 2011), her debut poetry collection. She is a CantoMundo fellow and a Creative Capital awardee as part of desveladas, a visual writing collective. She teaches English for the City University of New York. She was born in Brooklyn, raised in Coney Island, the daughter of Armando and Vilma of El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras. She lives in El Alto Manhattan.