Paloma Sierra

PALOMA SIERRA (she/her) is a Puerto Rican writer, translator, educator, and curator. She writes poetry, plays, screenplays, musical theatre books, and opera librettos.

Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2020-2021, Paloma has developed plays, musicals, and operas with various theater companies. She has collaborated with Project Y Theatre Company, Theatre Now New York, Poetic Theater Productions, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and White Snake Projects. Her poetry and translations appear in Bridge: The Bluffton University Journal, Persephone's Daughters, and Sampsonia Way Magazine. Her screenplay "Open Frame" is a finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant 2021.

Paloma holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing and a BHA in Creative Writing and Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a member of the Dramatists' Guild and New Play Exchange.

A Fulbright Scholar 2021-2022, Paloma plans to study Literary and Theater Translation at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Paloma is available for writing commissions and to facilitate writing workshops.

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