LA IMPRESORA: Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández
Photo by: Joelly Rodríguez
In residence: June - July 2025
LA IMPRESORA is an artist-led studio based in Puerto Rico, founded and directed by poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández. Their practice combines writing, printmaking, and independent publishing to explore themes of identity, place, and environmental interconnections, often through the lens of ecofeminism and land art.
The duo specialises in Risograph printing, a sustainable, analog printmaking technique, and has gained recognition for their small-scale editorial work and commitment to traditional publishing and bookbinding methods. Together, they run La Impresora as a space for collaboration, creativity, and the promotion of independent voices, producing poetry and art that reflect the unique cultural and environmental narratives of the Caribbean.
During their Artica Svalbard residency, Delgado and Hernández will engage with Svalbard’s unique environment to expand their creative practices, drawing connections between island ecosystems in the Caribbean and the Arctic. They plan to work on individual poetry projects and explore analog printmaking techniques that complement their focus on Risograph printing. Additionally, they hope to contribute to the local community by hosting a bilingual poetry reading and facilitating workshops.
Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Nicole Cecilia Delgado is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life, with an emphasis on place and territory.
Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), explores the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published: A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel). Nicole Delgado is the 2022-2033 Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence from the Virginia Center for the Book. She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, an award-winning poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale editorial work in Puerto Rico.
Amanda Hernández
Amanda Hernández is a poet, editor, and co-director of La Impresora. She has a BA in Hispanic Literature and an MA in Cultural Management from the University of Puerto Rico. Most of her poetry work has been self-published, including titles such as Entre tanto amarillo (2016), Estrategias atómicas (2018), and La distancia es un lugar (2020). In 2021, she received the inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship awarded by the Mellon Foundation for her work as a Puerto Rican poet. In 2023, her first book was translated into English and published in a bilingüal edition titled Yellow Struck (2023 - Editorial Pulpo).
Some of her poems have been published in anthologies such as Bioversa: antología de poesía científica (2024 - Gnomo Editorial) and Antología nacional (2024 - Festival Internacional de Poesía de Puerto Rico). Over the years, she has been invited to artist residencies and literary festivals around the world, such as Feria Internacional del Libro del Zócalo (2018 - CDMX), documenta15 (2022 - Kassel), Index Art Book Fair (2023 - CDMX), British Virgin Islands Literary Fest (2023 - Tortola), among others. Currently, she is working on two poetry projects: a bilingüal (Spanish / English) anthology of self-selected works in collaboration with the Puerto Rican poet and translator Ana Portnoy Brimmer, and a finished manuscript of her next book titled Lo imposible es el vacío.