Sydney Valerio is a creative non-fiction mixed genre writer, performer, and marathoner. She daylights as an educator & moonlights as a creative. In 2016 she wrote and performed “Matters” a one woman show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Her poetry is in several anthologies including the BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: Latinext. She is a 2020 Volcanista and a 2023 Kenyon Review Alumna. A 2019 BRIO Award winning poet and a NYSEC 2022 Educator of Excellence, Sydney is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at CCNY. She is a storytelling community instructor for The Moth. She is the project manager for the CCNY MFA Archives as Muse: a Harlem Storytelling project and the creator of the creative digital archive project: Perspective Matters-NYC Kid Who's Now a NYC Adult.
Books featuring Sydney's work:
Mujeres: The Magic, The Movement & The Muse
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 Latinext
Bronx Memoir Project Volume IV
La Galeria Magazine
Peínate: Hair Battles Between Latina Mothers & Daughters
