Raquel Salas Rivera

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Raquel Salas Rivera (born December 26, 1985) is a bilingual Puerto Rican poet who writes in Spanish and English, focusing on the experience of being a migrant to the United States, the colonial status of Puerto Rico, and of identifying as a queer Puerto Rican and Philadelphian of non-binary gender.[1] They have a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania [2] and were selected as the fourth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2018.[1] They currently live in Puerto Rico.