A woman with curly black hair and a black top stands beside a bookshelf filled with various books, looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The background appears to be a library or an office.

Nelly Rosario

Nelly Rosario is author of Song of the Water Saints: A Novel, winner of a PEN/Open Book Award, and her fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in various anthologies and journals. She is a researcher for the MIT Black History Project and Associate Professor at Williams College.