Rose Mary Salum has authored 9 books.
She is the founder of the award-winning bilingual magazine Literal Magazine.
She has taught as a visiting professor at Universidad de Iowa [es], Rice University, and Saint Thomas University.She is a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.
Her essays and fiction are included in an array of anthologies: Diáspora (Vaso Roto, 2017), Lados B, Narrativa de alto riesgo (Nitro Press, 2016), The Body Subject & Subjected (Sussex Academy Press, 2015), Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors (Hostos Review, 2015), Cruce de fronteras: Antología de escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos (SubUrbano, 2013), Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos (Dislocados, 2012), Raíces latinas, narradores y poetas inmigrantes (Vagón azul, 2012), America nuestra: antología de narrativa en español en Estados Unidos (Linkgua, 2011), Professions (MLA, 2009), among others.
Her books have been translated to Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and English.