Myra Kathiria Rosa is an award-winning Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican writer, sensory ethnographer, and transdisciplinary cultural producer from the South Bronx. Her practice is rooted in writing as method—using poetry, lyric ethnography, photography, and film to explore memory, diaspora, and the multiplicity of identity within Afro–Latinx and Indigenous societies.
Before entering academia, Myra worked in the fashion industry and as a social practitioner, experiences that continue to inform her attention to embodiment, care, and material culture. Following Hurricane María in 2018, she began documenting Afro-Indigenous oral histories across Puerto Rico, developing an autoethnographic storytelling practice grounded in collective memory and survivance. This work earned her a two-year Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2020–2022).
Her bilingual poetry collection meliorism. (2024) traces ancestral and cosmic registers through fragmented lyric forms, positioning language as both archive and speculative site. In 2022, she founded Race to a Future, a global multimedia initiative that supports institutions in adopting decolonial methodologies and cross-cultural frameworks.
Myra is currently producing a cycle of films examining affect, land, and relationality across Indigenous communities. Her films have screened at festivals throughout North America, South America, Eurasia, Australia, and Africa. She divides her time between New York City and the U.S. South.