Nelly A.Rosario is the author of Song of the Water Saints: A Novel, winner of a PEN/Open Book Award. Her fiction and non-fiction works appear in various anthologies and journals. Honors include the Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction and a 2016 Creative Capital Artist Award in Literature. Rosario holds an SB in environmental engineering from MIT and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Formerly on faculty at Texas State University and a Visiting Scholar in the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program, Rosario is the 2017-18 Schumann Visiting Professor at Williams College. Currently, she serves as writer and researcher for the MIT Black History Project. Rosario is at work on a speculative novel about community medicine. 

Publications

• Song of the Water Saints: A Novel , Pantheon (February 26, 2002)

Awards

• PEN American Center/Open Book Award(2002)
• Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction(2008)
• Howard Foundation Fellowship(2010)
• Creative Capital Award in Literature(2016)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at Texas State University (August 2009 - June 2013)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University (August 2003 - May 2007)
• Visiting Scholar at MIT, Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program (August 2013 - August 2014)
• Assistant Director of Writing at Blacks at MIT History Project (August 2013 - August 2017)
• Schumann Visiting Professor at Williams College (September 2017 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from MIT (June 1994)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Fiction from Columbia University (May 1998)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Children's literature , Poetry