Greisy Genao (they/she) is a poet and filmmaker from Queens, NY with a BA in English Writing and Film Studies from DePauw University. In 2014, Greisy was awarded the competitive Posse Foundation scholarship to DePauw University. Her first publication was at age 18, when she won first place in the university’s Best First Year Seminar Essay Anthology for her memoir “Centipedes.” As the years progressed, she was awarded with the Chad Kostel Student Memorial Award for the “junior or senior who has a commitment to writing as a profession," and the Roy and Anna Kennedy Prize in Creative Writing for the senior who has most distinguished themselves in creative writing.”
In 2018, Greisy won the prestigious Fulbright Research award, and proceeded to conduct research on Dominican folklore and film in the Dominican Republic for ten months. While there, Greisy studied folklore at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santiago de Los Caballeros, studied Creative Writing with renowned Spanish writer Gabriela Llanos. After spending some time doing personal documentary work in Jarabacoa, Greisy then taught screenwriting at Cinema Boreal in Santo Domingo. They have been published in the anthologies “Women of Eve’s Garden” by A Gathering of the Tribes Press, “Ritmo Que Late” and "Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla" from the Dominican Writers Association, and Sarah Lawrence College’s “Lumina Journal.” Their film work has been celebrated across the Dominican diaspora, and alongside being featured at the Femujer! Film Festival in Santo Domingo, their latest short film “Si Ardiera La Ciudad'' won first place for the “Dominicans in the Diaspora” short film competition of the 2020 Dominican Film Festival in New York. Greisy has also produced “Stories of the Diaspora," a series dedicated to capturing the narratives of multi-generational Dominicans in New York. As a multidisciplinary storyteller, Greisy seeks to explore and honor the connection between folklore and nostalgia as it appears in the hyphenated Dominican experience, and to write their body, community, and knowings into the literary and film worlds. |