She has been an influence on young Puerto Ricans in literary creation by offering free workshops for children and youth poetry and has published several books as a result of that work.
In 1980, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (University of the Sacred Heart) in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Her thesis, entitled "El Suícidio, el último recurso para la felicidad de Madame Bovary" (Suicide, the last resort for the happiness of Madame Bovary) was provocative and caused a mixed reaction from students and faculty, but she received praise from the President of the French Alliance of Puerto Rico and earned her degree.
She was accepted to the Doctoral Program of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus,[1] where she studies Hispanic-American literature.
[5] The following year, in 2005,[6] she participated in the First International Encounter of the poets "Matilde Alba Swann" and "Manuel Agustín Aguirre" held in Loja, Ecuador.