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Marianela Medrano

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Annual Individual
First name
Marianela
Last name
Medrano
Organization
Palabra Center
 

Contact Info

City
New Haven
US State
Connecticut
Country
United States
 

About Me

Profession
Psychologist, Poetry Therapist
Short Bio
Marianela Medrano was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in psychology, with especial focus on transpersonal psychology. Medrano is vice-president of Grace Works International, a charitable foundation involved in outreach in the developing world. She is also de owner of Palabra Counseling Center in Stamford, CT. Her literary work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in Latin America, Europe and the United States, including: The Black Scholar 45.2: Dominican Black Studies (2015), Phati’tude (2012), Letralia (2011), Callaloo 23.3 (Summer 2000), Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean. New York: Azul Editions, 1997: 210-211, 384. Revista Surgai. Bilbao, España, diciembre 1995: 88-91, González-Gimbernart, Esther. “Coreografía de la imagen”. Letras femeninas. XXII: 1-2 (1996): 155, among others. In 2015 she did a TEDTALK at Ursuline College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQeBYd2oJk.
Medrano is also a regular blogger for the American Counseling Association (ACA): http://www.counseling.org/news/blog/authors/marianela-medrano
The following are her individual publications:
Oficio de Vivir (1986). Santo Domingo: Editorial Buho
Los Alegres Ojos de la Tristeza (1987). Santo Domingo: Editorial Buho.
Regando Esencias/ The Scent of Waiting (1998). New York: Alcance
Curada de Espantos (2002). Madrid: Ediciones Torremozas.
Diosas de la Yuca (2011). Madrid: Ediciones Torremozas
Prietica (2013) Santo Domingo: Alfaguara
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