Education
University of Miami Miami, FL
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Columbia University New York, NY Master of Arts in Hispanic Cultural Studies
Middlebury College Middlebury, VT
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Mario Alejandro Ariza
Medium Agnostic Storyteller
Mario Alejandro Ariza is a Dominican immigrant to the United States who grew up in Santo Domingo and Miami. He is currently a Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Miami’s Master in Fine Arts program, and an editorial fellow at The New Tropic. He holds a Master’s degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Columbia University. His poetry can be found in Gulf Coast, The Raleigh Review, The Baffler, And the The Cincinnati Review. You can find his text and video journalism in places like The Atlantic, The Miami New Times, and The New Tropic. His essays appear in Cigar Snob Magazine and other lifestyle magazines.
Contact Me
3375 Franklin Ave Miami Fl
Apt B
33133
Tel: 786.210.6548
Poetry:
Journalism
Publications:
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Structural Violence,” Cincinnati Review, forthcoming this spring issue.
“Ghazal For Hispañiola,” “Kissing Cousins,” BOAAT Press Magazine, September/October 2016 issue.
“Chivo Expiatorio” in The Raleigh Review, Volume 6, No.2, Fall 2016
“Antonio Machado to Miguel de Unamuno, after the death of Antonio’s wife: December, 1910” in Gulf Coast Literary Journal, issue 27.2, Houston, Texas. April 2015.
“Playa de Andres,” “Gideon’s Bible,” “Roble,” “Creole Hegemony,” “Immigrant Fiction #1,” “Aboard el Pícaro,” “Telenovela,” “Lincoln con Kenney, 1989,” “Immigrant fiction #2,” & “Blackout” in Small Axe Literary Review, issue 47, Columbia University department of Anthropology, New York, NY. Forthcoming, July 2015
“Gideon’s Bible,” “Brother, please,” & “All grace is false” in Bodega Magazine, issue 30, Brooklyn, NY. Forthcoming February 2015
“Instruction In the Art of Filming Atomic Bombs” in The Baffler, issue 26, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 2014
“Instruction in the Art of Filming Atomic Bombs (first ten sections redacted),” in Industrial Lunch Magazine, issue 3, Amherst, Massachusetts. December 2014
“Grandma I love you but you’re a fascist” in LunaLuna magazine’s web based “30 Latin@ poets” series. Brooklyn, NY. September 2014
“Today’s Infidelity,” & “Beach Reading” in The Weekly Rumpus, issue 4, Brooklyn, NY. April 2014
“Karl Marx’s Funeral” in Keep This Bag Away from Children, Issue 3, Brooklyn, NY. October 2013
“Commute,” “She-bop shemá,” &“Huechalafquen” in Cricleshow, volume 6, Seattle WA. July 2011.
Essays:
Triumph of Black Dominican Athlete not Shared by Everyone Back Home / Fox News Latino
A lynching in Paradise? / Latino Rebels
Dominican Cops are Arresting LGBQT and Asking for Bribes / We are Mitú
La Sentencia: The Source of the Western Hemisphere's Worst Refugee Crisis / The Atlantic
Miami's going to have to create its own gravity / The New Tropic
Climate Change Expert Harold Wanless Wants to Convince Donald Trump on Global Warming / Miami New Times
Trump Portrait Spotted in Doral / Miami New Times
Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 and Miami Art Week Events / Miami New Times
Miami Beach King Tides Could Be Full Of Human Waste, Scientist Warns / Miami New Times
Is Miami Prepared for Self-Driving Cars? / Miami New Times
Miami Street Artists Deliver New Murals During Art Basel 2016 / Miami New Times
Steve Parker's Traffic Jam Makes Music Out of Art Basel Gridlock / Miami New Times
How to buy a home in Miami, the sinking city | The New Tropic
The Ten Best Tattoo Shops in Miami / Miami New Times
Overtown Artists Say Landlords Won't Pay for Murals They Commissioned / Miami New Times
Dominicans of Haitian Descent Are Deported and Forgotten / Feature, Miami New Times
Jose Maria Cabral's Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) Tells a Dominican Love Story at Najayo Prison / Miami New Times
Allapattah: Miami's next Wynwood? | The New Tropic
A Syrian family reunion, interrupted | The New Tropic
They're paving the pine rocklands and putting up a Walmart. | The New Tropic
Miami native Alex Daly is kind of a Kickstarter and Indiegogo wizard. Here's her advice. | The New Tropic
Is climate change gentrification really happening in Miami? | The New Tropic
50,000 Haitians will get to stay in the U.S. – but for only six more months | The New Tropic
The Bookstore in the Grove is closing. It won't be the last. / The New Tropic
The U.S. has left the Paris accords. Here's what you need to read. | The New Tropic
Summer reading 2017: Our 10 favorite books set in South Florida / The New Tropic
Bruce Matheson: crank or model for anti-development activism in 2017? / The New Tropic
Septic tanks and climate change don't mix. That's bad news for Miami's poop. | The New Tropic
1450 Brickell is where you want to be when disaster strikes / The New Tropic
These are the companies who will get rich helping Miami adapt to rising seas / The New Tropic
Do beach lifeguards Have Miami's toughest workout? / The New Tropic
Miami, meet your local shark wranglers / The New Tropic
It's mini lobster season. Here's how you can join in / The New Tropic
Miami FC: the winningest SoFla team you've never heard of / The New Tropic
Is this the best baklava in Miami? / The New Tropic
Florida has more than 30 Confederate monuments. / The New Tropic
What does it take for a bookstore to survive in Miami? / The New Tropic
Miami runs on ventanitas / The New Tropic
“Love, Vodún, and Betrayal in the Hinterlands of Hispañiola” Cigar Snob Magazine, November/December 2016
“War By Any Other Meme: Digital Violence and the Death of Republics in the Internet Age,” Forthcoming, The New Inquiry.
