Aurora levins morales poems

Puerto Rican writer (born 1954)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Levins and the second or maternal family name is Morales.

Aurora Levins Morales (born February 24, 1954) is a Puerto Rican writer and poet.^[1] She is significant within Latinafeminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.

Biography

Early life and education

Levins Morales was born February 24, 1954, in Indiera Baja, a barrio of Maricao, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Rosario Morales, was a Harlem-born Puerto Rican writer.

Her father, Richard Levins, who was Brooklyn-born and of Ukrainian-Jewish heritage,^[2] was an ecologist, a population geneticist, a mathematical ecologist who researched diversity in human populations, and John Rock Professor of Population Sciences^[3] and head of the Human Ecology program^[4][5] of the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard