Instructor

Cloe Gentile Reyes is honored and thrilled to join such a talented and warm group of writers at Writopia Lab! She is a historian, poet, performer, and activist based in New York City. Having received dual degrees in Music and Sociology from Emory University, she is now working on her doctoral thesis in Musicology from the University of California Santa Barbara. She is passionate about cultivating community and her writing is dedicated to preserving and celebrating her Puerto Rican heritage and her family’s migration story. She loves bending and blending forms and styles of writing and exploring what it means to be second generation in the U.S. by incorporating Spanglish into her work. She has presented her work at national and international conferences and has designed several of her own lecture-recitals in which she dances, sings, and shares musical histories that are often overlooked by Eurocentric knowledge systems. She is super excited to be able to bring her out-of-the-box approaches to the brilliant writers at Writopia Lab, and to learn from them as well!