Marcela Maldonado

Poetry

Portrait of Marcela Maldonado, supplied by the contributor.

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Marcela Maldonado was born in Pasaje, El Oro, Ecuador where she lived until she was 10 and where she began writing stories and drawing. She grew up in New York City where she wrote and staged a play, “Dead End Street”, through The Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities and The Women’s Theatre Project’s in-school program. She built a career in land stewardship and equitable conservation while exploring her creative interests. Today she is reconnecting with writing and using it to explore her experience with immigration, family, love, and belonging as well as the city she calls home (NYC

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