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Alex Sastre-Rivera (Utuado, 1997) is a poet, student and teacher from Puerto Rico. He is currently Ph.D. candidate at Emory University’s Comparative Literature program, where he studies matters of Caribbean tourism, colonial histories, media, queerness, and literature. He majored in English Literature and have a certificate in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. During his undergrad, Alex was Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and was one of the founders of Fractal Puerto Rico, an educational and artistic project.

He has eight years of experience organizing creative writing workshops in public schools, college campuses, literary festivals, and online groups. His poetry book pequeñas catástrofes was published in March 2021 by La Impresora.  He was a 2024 The Dread Unsayable fellow and is a member of 2025 PocketMFA Winter Workshop. His poetry has been featured in Sin Cesar, distropika, Revista Cinosargo, among others.  

Alex is the co-host of the literary podcast Libros Colaos where he, along Karlié Rodríguez, meditate on reading and writing practices and offer advice to readers and scholars who struggle with reading for pleasure.  The podcast has come out from Karlié and Alex’s reading archive on Instagram under the same name.

In his free time, Alex enjoys reading multiple books at the same time and drinking good coffee.

Alex Sastre-Rivera (Utuado, 1997) actualmente cursa sus estudios doctorales en el departamento de Literatura Comparada de Emory University. En el 2020 culminó su bachillerato en Inglés con concentración en Literatura y una certificación de Estudios de Mujer y Género de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. Sastre-Rivera fue unx de lxs fundadorxs de Fractal Puerto Rico, un proyecto artístico y educacional.

Alex ha organizado talleres de escritura creativa en escuelas públicas en Puerto Rico, festivales de literatura, y en grupos autogestionados. Su primer libro de poesía pequeñas catástrofes fue publicado por La Impresora en Marzo 2021. También puedes encontrar sus poemas en las revistas literarias Sin Cesar, distropika, Revista Cinosargo, entre otras.

En su tiempo libre, Sastre-Rivera disfruta ser co-host del podcast literario Libros Colaos, leer varios libros a la misma vez y tomar una buena taza de café.