Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York ...

Esmeralda Santiago may have left her native Puerto Rico at 13, but the island, given her memoirs and fiction, has yet to let her go. In her newest novel, “Las Madres,” three friends return to ...

Students from the Canyon High School Orchestra, directed by Michael Whang, and El Rancho Charter Middle School Orchestra, directed by Catherine Olsen, will perform classical orchestral works.

Esmeralda Santiago, a founding mother of Nuyorican literature, was part of the University at Albany’s: The Creative Life: Conversation Series in the Fall… ...

At the city’s top performing arts high school – Fiorello H. LaGuardia – auditions have traditionally mattered most. But numerous insiders said new, tougher academic standards at the Lincoln ...