About Joseph

Joseph A. Cáceres is a writer from the South Bronx whose work explores the absent Puerto Rican presence in the American scene as necessary for the construction of our ideals of democracy, freedom, empire, and desire. An alumnus of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, Joseph is also the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts’ Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant for Fiction, and the 2019 LAMBDA Literary Writers Residency for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. His work has been published in Emerge: 2019 Lambda Fellows AnthologySlice Literary MagazineCosmonauts Avenue, and CURA Literary Magazine. He has received multiple awards and grants to support his work with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project, an organization dedicated to conducting archival research and oral histories in its missions to preserve the legacies and contributions of Afro-Caribbean artists in the diaspora from being erased by revisionist history. In 2022 Joseph, along with Lois Elaine Griffith, one of the last surviving founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, co-edited an anthology memorializing the life and work of the Cafe’s founding father, Miguel Algarín, Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love, which was published by NYU’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Joseph is currently working on a three-book project revolving around the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s aesthetic.