Paloma Sierra
PALOMA SIERRA (she/her) is a Puerto Rican writer, translator, educator, and curator. She writes poetry, plays, screenplays, musical theatre books, and opera librettos.
Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2020-2021, Paloma has developed plays, musicals, and operas with various theater companies. She has collaborated with Project Y Theatre Company, Theatre Now New York, Poetic Theater...
PALOMA SIERRA (she/her) is a Puerto Rican writer, translator, educator, and curator. She writes poetry, plays, screenplays, musical theatre books, and opera librettos.
Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2020-2021, Paloma has developed plays, musicals, and operas with various theater companies. She has collaborated with Project Y Theatre Company, Theatre Now New York, Poetic Theater Productions, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and White Snake Projects. Her poetry and translations appear in Bridge: The Bluffton University Journal, Persephone's Daughters, and Sampsonia Way Magazine. Her screenplay "Open Frame" was a finalist for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant 2021.
Paloma holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing and a BHA in Creative Writing and Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a member of the Dramatists' Guild and New Play Exchange.
A Fulbright Scholar 2021-2022, Paloma plans to study Literary and Theater Translation at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paloma is available to facilitate writing workshops, participate in panel discussions, and to receive writing commissions.
See Paloma’s work at pasierra.com