Yo soy Melania.
I’m a first-generation American Two-Time Audie Award Winning Author, Educator, Speaker and Poet with a New York Public Library Card and Big Dreams.
A Few Facts About Me:
I grew up in Baruch Housing on the Lower East Side of New York City.
By the age of ten, I had my first profitable business selling batata (purple sweet potato) ice cream out of my grandmother’s Caribbean kitchen during the summers.
My favorite girl groups are Destiny’s Child and 3LW.
It’s scrapbook time
Melania Luisa Marte is a writer, poet, and educator from New York living between the Dominican Republic and Texas. Her most viral poem “Afro-Latina” was featured by Instagram on their IG TV for National Poetry Month and has garnered over 9 million views.
Her work has also been featured by Ain’t I Latina, The Root, Teen Vogue, Facebook, Telemundo, Remezcla, and People En Español. Melania’s won two Audie awards for her most recent voice-over work co-narrating novel-in-verse, CLAP WHEN YOU LAND by National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo.
Marte’s latest commissioned work includes a commercial poem for McDonald’s ‘Hacer Mas’ scholarship campaign as well as starring in and writing a unique poem for Facebook’s 2020 Heritage Month celebration. In 2021 Melania co-wrote and starred in Instagram´s Somos Limitless campaign. She is also co-writer of The Braid of Time, a short film now streaming on Netflix. Marte’s debut collection of poetry, PLANTAINS AND OUR BECOMING was published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint of Plume and Penguin Random House. You can follow her journey on social media: @MelaTocaTierra.
