Nelly Rosario (born 1972) is a Dominican American novelist and creative writing instructor in the MFA Program at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in engineering from MIT and an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University.

After the debut of her novel Song of the Water Saints, Rosario was described by Julia Alvarez as "a Caribbean Scheherazade."

Awards and Honors

1997: Winner, Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in Fiction
2001: Named a “Writer on the Verge” by the Village Voice Literary Supplement
2002: Winner, PEN Open Book Award
2003: Finalist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction
2008: Recipient, The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award for Fiction

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