Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a 2023 Inaugural Fellow of the Candela Playwrights Summer Program, and a recipient of the Bronx Cultural Visions Grant. In 2023, she earned a fellowship from The Dramatic Question Theater and was invited to join Faces of America #5 as part of The Playground Experiment. Her monologue, “Recycle & Return”, was published in their anthology.
Peggy is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a BRIO award winner who earned writing fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights, The Frost Place, VONA, The Ashbery Home School, and NALAC. With advanced degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies, this three-time International Latino Book Award winner authored Conversations With My Skin, and Homage To The Warrior Women.
As a performance poet, her work has been featured in Solfest-A Latine Theater Festival, The Dodge Poetry Festival, HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, Pregones Theater, Harlem 9 Presents: 48 Hours En El Bronx, and The Smithsonian Institute.
Peggy’s poetry has been highly anthologized and appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, ¡Manteca! Afro- Latin@ Poets, great weather for MEDIA, What Saves Us Anthology, The Soul Sister Revue Anthology, and Poetry Unbound. Online Peggy has been published in Poets.org, Tribes.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, 92Y.org, Centro Voices, and NACLA.org.
Through her 501(c)(3), Robleswrites Productions Inc., she created Lalibreta.online, The Abuela Stories Project, and many community-centered events. Learn more at Robleswrites.com and Robleswritesproductions.com.
