⭐️Bless Me, Papi just got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.⭐️ I can’t wait to share this story with you! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Honored to be short-listed for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) First Book Prize! BARS is the UK’s leading national organization for promoting the study of Romanticism. Congrats to the fellow honorees--excited to see the winner next month!!! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6441...

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The fall 2025 issue of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US (MELUS) is out, and my conversation with Ocean Vuong is included in it! If you’d like a pdf, let me know! academic.oup.com/melus/articl...

I'm officially tenured!!! I'm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me through it all. I'm humbled and honored to continue this work as an Associate Professor. 🎉🙏🤩

Still reeling from this fabulous event! Thank you, Profe! 🙏🏽💜

Behind every major movement are countless silently abused women and girls.

Headed to my present my paper on the Aenikkaeng Koreans of 1905 at the C19 conference! Part of an awesome panel on the Latinx-Asian Commons of the Long Nineteenth Century with other papers on Chinese, Punjabi, and Mexican relationalities in print and literature! Co-chaired w/ @ayendy.bsky.social!

Super excited to be in conversation with all this brilliance as we conceptualize a “Latinx-Asian commons” at @c19americanists.bsky.social conference! Would love to see you there! 💜🙏🏽

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

I’m honored to be a part of this conversación! Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Thank you so much to Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce for covering the launch event for Dique Dominican. Please check out La Prensa Ohio and Michigan Bilingual Newspaper, northwest Ohio’s oldest and continuously running Latinx newspaper. 💜🙏🏽 laprensanewspaper.com/index.php/20...

DIQUE DOMINICAN is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child. #books asterismbooks.com/product/diqu...

I am incredibly humbled and grateful! Congratulations to my fellow poetas: winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and contributors! Palante mi gente. This is a big one. 🙏🏽💜😭🇭🇹🇩🇴

I’m placing a new order today. Let me know if you’d like a personalized copy in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. $30 includes shipping 🙏🏽💜

I’m heading to the post office and still have a few copies left. Let me know if you want one. $30 (includes shipping)

Friends, join Dr. Lorgia García Peña and I today at 1:30 PM for the virtual launch of Dique Dominican. I’ll be giving away a free signed copy of the book to a lucky attendee in addition to, what I know will be, a great conversation. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...

I’m enormously grateful to all those who attended the book launch for Dique Dominican as well as all who were there in spirit. Thank you so much!

¡Mi gente! I have signed copies for sale. They come with a custom Dique Dominican bookmark. Email me at ayendy9 [at] gmail, or private message me if interested. $30 (including shipping). 🙏🏽💜

¡Palante, mi gente! news.utoledo.edu/index.php/02...

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“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!

It’s official! Today, Dique Dominican is out in the word! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🏽💜🥳 www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...

"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics." Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...

Read about it here www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

¡Advanced copies of Dique Dominican are here!💜🥳🙏🏽🇩🇴🇭🇹 www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique...

Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...

New poem! Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social

Mark your calendarios!

Friends! My book is 50% off today—only $12:48. I’m grateful for your support! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...

Hello, friends! Edinburgh UP just released the paperback edition of Paratextuality. Use discount code PAPER30 for 30% off! 🙏🏽💜 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...

Honored to be included, along so many wonderful writers, in Driftwood Press’s 2026 anthology. And the cover art! Simply magic! 😍💜 www.driftwoodpress.com/our-books/dr...

Today/Hoy @ 3:30! englishcomplit.unc.edu/event/lsp-sp...

Got to celebrate @ayendy.bsky.social getting tenure and promoted to associate professor today! Congrats, love! 🎉👏🏼💕

Happy Halloween! Northwestern University Press is offerring 40% off Bless Me, Papi! Halloween 🎃 👻

When I lost my dad to glioblastoma in 2019, I turned into a little boy with my grief. Bless Me, Papi was my escape, the only place where I could summon him beyond my sadness to see Papi with all his dancing and humor and more. Preorder link is up: nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040...

Review and preorder: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Mi gente! My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for early reviewers to help spread the word. Hit me up if you are by emailing me at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks so much for your support! 💜📚

Thank you, INSURRECT! for publishing this piece—a smaller part of my new book project. www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...

Dique Dominican is now available for preorder. If the book speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider ordering a copy and sharing it with others.

✨ Exciting news, friends! ✨ My memoir, Dique Dominican, is coming out this January, and I’m looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing it. Please email at Ayendy9 [at] gmail [.] com if interested . Thank you for helping me spread the word! 💜📚

I’m ecstatic to share a chapter from my new book project on Hispaniola and the U.S. Press as part of the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Event details here: lsp.unc.edu/event/the-la...

¡Wow! What a lovely first review for Dique Dominican! “A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

We’re three thousand dollars away from this weekend’s goal. Please donate if you can. Any bit helps. #solidarity #resist

This plátano poem! By Malcolm Friend! www.cincinnatireview.com/samples/plat...

“I loved my father. But behind the canopy of love is a trunk of hate, the bark and crack of pain, anger, and violence that love often conceals in its shadow. I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.”

Thank you to Dominican Writers for making the Preface for Dique Dominican available. dominicanwriters.substack.com/p/the-inheri...

I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1