Sofia Quintero





Sofia Quintero

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Sofia Quintero is the author of several novels and short stories that cross genres. Born into a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx., the self-proclaimed Ivy League homegirl earned a BA in history-sociology from Columbia University in 1990 and her MPA from the university's School of International and Public Affairs in 1992. After years of working on a range of policy issues from multicultural education to HIV/AIDS, she decided to pursue career that married arts and activism. Under the pen name Black Artemis, she wrote the hip hop novels Explicit Content, Picture Me Rollin and Burn. Sofia is also the author of the novel Divas Dont Yield and contributed novellas to the chica lit anthologies Friday Night Chicas and Names I...more


Average rating: 3.68 · 259 ratings · 64 reviews · 9 distinct works
Efrain's Secret
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Divas Don't Yield: A Novel
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006
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The Arrangement
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009
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Divas Don't Yield Divas Don...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Names I Call My Sister: Sto...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Names I Call My Sister
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009
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