Eilyn Lombard Cabrera

Eilyn Lombard is an assistant professor of Spanish at Central Connecticut State University. She received her PhD in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Cultures from the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on strategies of defiance embedded in Latin American and Caribbean poetry expanded into contemporary forms of protest and the intersections with performance and digital media.

Lombard has published the poetry books Todas las diosas fatigadas (Ediciones La Luz, Holguín, 2011), and Suelen ser frágiles las muchachas sobre el puente (Reina del Mar Editores, 2005). Her poetry books Las tierras rojas and Bienvenido a Facebook are coming soon by the publishing houses Ediciones Mecenas and Letras Cubanas, respectively. 

She currently heads the Gender, Diversity and Strategic Alliances Coordination at Iniciativa AC, a program focused on promoting the protection of the human rights of cis women, trans people and non-binary people, taking into account the diversity of gender, race, class and origin.

She is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Candela Review, a peer-reviewed and open-access Afro-Feminist journal.