Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican-born, New York-raised novelist and memoirist whose novels Daughters of the Stone (2010) and A Woman of Endurance (2023) represent the often hidden or erased stories of generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women in particular, from slavery to the present. With degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Queens College, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s passion for storytelling in all its forms was in part inspired by her experiences living with her grandparents in rural Puerto Rico, and by the oral histories of the older women in her family.

Daughters of the Stone was shortlisted for the 2010 PEN America Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers and received the National Indie Excellence Multicultural Fiction Award. Her most recent novel, A Woman of Endurance, has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Llanos-Figueroa received the Bronze Medal for Best Historical Fiction in Spanish and a Gold Medal for the Best Fiction Book Translation from the International Latino Book Awards. In 2021, Llanos-Figueroa was awarded the Letras Boricuas Fellowship, making her part of the inaugural cohort of the fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation Arts Fund.