Erika Morillo

Erika Morillo is a writer, photographer, and translator born and raised in the Dominican Republic and based in Jersey City. Her work focuses on family narratives, identity, and the possibilities of image-text publications. Her memoir Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Her photographs have been published and exhibited nationally and internationally, and her books are in the collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, MoMA Archives and Library, The Met Library, The Getty Institutional Archives, and The International Center of Photography Library, among others. She has taught workshops at the Center for Book Arts, International Center of Photography, Off Assignment, Columbia University, CHAVÓN School of Design, and Dominican Writers Association. She holds an MA in sociology from The New School for Social Research and an MFA from Image Text Ithaca (now Image Text MFA at Cornell University).