Miguel D. Mena

Miguel D. Mena (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1961) is a Dominican writer, poet, essayist and publisher. He studied sociology in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, where he graduated in 1986 with the thesis Ciudad, espacio y poder en Republica Dominicanca (City, space and power in Dominican Republic). He continued his research on the city of Santo Domingo in Germany, where he has been living since 1990. His PhD from the Free University of Berlin has been recently published under the title: Iglesia, Espacio y Poder: Santo Domingo (1498–1521) Experiencia Fundacional del Nuevo Mundo (Church, Space and Power: Santo Domingo (1498–1521)). He has also written a collection of essays about the urban question in the Dominican Republic (Poetica de Santo Domingo Vol. 1, 2 and 3) and hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines about contemporary aspects of the Dominican capital. He has also written extensively about Dominican literature and especially about Vanguardism in the Dominican literature. He has been one of the leading figures in independent publishing since the mid-1980s in Dominican Republic. He is now at the head of “Cielonaranja Ediciones”.