Elizabeth Santiago
Affiliated Faculty, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Santiago is the founder of The Untold Narratives, a free website dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. As a fiction writer and writing teacher living in Boston, she seeks to elevate underrepresented and under-heard voices.
Her debut novel published by Lee & Low, The Moonlit Vine, is available in English and Spanish (Claro de luna), and tells the little known narrative of the Taíno people, the native people of Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica, who are still here and a huge part of Caribbean culture and history.
She teaches at Boston’s creative writing center, Grub Street, where she has led workshops, including Novel Generator, Retelling the Classics, Magical Realism, and Writing Inclusive Young Adult and Middle Grade Novels.
Courses
- Topics in US Multicultural Lit
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
- Topics in U.S. Multicultural Literature