Although she calls both New York City and Puerto Rico home, Liana Silva currently writes from Kansas City, Kansas in the US.

Liana obtained her BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She is currently a PhD candidate in the English Department at Binghamton University. Until recently, she taught college-level writing. She is currently working on her dissertation, an interdisciplinary study on the concept of home and New York City in African American and Puerto Rican cultural productions. She is also a Managing Editor and Regular Contributor at http://soundingoutblog.com, a blog about sound studies. On top of that she is busy raising a daughter and settling into their new home in Kansas City. You can follow her short bursts of thought on twitter.com/literarychica or her longer, better organized ideas at wordsaremygame.wordpress.com. She can be reached at lms@soundingoutblog.com.

Posts include:

• What Are You Teaching Next Semester? (2011/05/10) (Also in Inside Higher Ed).
• “We Need To Talk” (2011/01/27) (Also in Inside Higher Ed).