about Celeste Landeros

Celeste Landeros is a performing artist, arts critic, and performance studies scholar professor of English and Humanities at Barry University. She has contributed to the Miami Herald and WLRN radio, and has served as staff writer and music editor at the Miami New Times. She is the co-author of Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America and is currently completing a book on Carnival Arts, a youth arts education project she directed from 2008-2017, for Caribbean Studies Press. She has won grants from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Celeste is the founding editor of ArtBurst, and is now the opera critic for the site.

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