Tere Marichal

For 25 years starting in 1987, her television show, *La Casa de Maria Chuzema", was shown on Puerto Rico's government channel, the PBS-affiliated Canal 6.

[citation needed] As of 2020, Marichal had written some 31 books that have been published, both in Spanish and in English.

[3] Victoria Espinosa directed La Isla Antilla by Marichal, which went on tour to North America in 1996.

[6] During June of 2020, Marichal told Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero that she had recuperated from a bout with COVID-19.

[7] Her son, Miguel, who was, as of 2020, incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States, also suffered from that disease.

Tere Marichal, storyteller from Puerto Rico, telling the afro-caribbean folktale of Anansi at Biblioteca Juvenil de Mayagüez during a Multicultural Children's Book Day activity