Chiqui Vicioso

Luisa Angélica Sherezada Vicioso (born 21 June 1948), better known as Chiqui Vicioso, is a Dominican poet, playwright, essayist, feminist activist and author of twenty books.

Education and career The daughter of Maria Luisa Sánchez, a poet, and Juan Antonio Vicioso Contín, a composer, illustrator and also a poet, Chiqui Vicioso was born on 21 June 1948, in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. In 1967, at the age of 19, she left the country, along with her family, to study for her first degree, in sociology and Latin American history, at Brooklyn College in New York. She also earned a master's degree in educational program design at Columbia University, then went on to study for a semester in the administration of cultural projects at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After living abroad for many years in the United States and Brazil, she returned to Santo Domingo in the early 1980s.