Alister E. Ramirez

Alister Ramirez Marquez, a Professor of Spanish Language and Hispanic American Literature in the BMCC Modern Languages department, is the author of a fictional memoir, My Emerald Green Dress, which chronicles Colombia’s turbulent 20th Century and is a winner of the 2005 Best International Literary Prize by the Art Critics Circle of Chile.
Professor Ramirez Marquez is also the author of Quien se robo los colores? (Who Stole the Colors?), a children’s book based on a pre-Columbian myth about the origin of the first man on earth, as well as the novels Reportaje a Once Escritores Norteamericanos (Planeta Editorial, 1996), Andres Bello: critico (Ala de Mosca, 2005), and Los suenos de los hombres se los fuman las mujeres (Planeta Editorial, 2009).
Ramirez Marquez shares his creative writing process with students, as well as his experience as a journalist. In 1994, his interview of Norman Mailer appeared in El Tiempo, the most widely read newspaper of Colombia, and was included along with his interviews of Russell Banks, Harold Bloom, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and others in his collection, Interviews with 11 U.S. Fiction Writers (Editorial Planeta).