Angela "Angy" Abreu is a Dominican-American mom, writer and

community organizer. Angy firmly believes that “if it does not

exist then you must create it.” As a poet and community organizer,

in 2014 she co-founded Wordat4F,Where Community Activism

Meets the Arts”,a grassroots traveling open mic series that

cultivated a love of spoken word, poetry and literature in the

Uptown (Washington Heights, Inwood & Bronx) communities of

New York City. Wordat4F began as an open mic series requested

and hosted in secret locations and later made a home in Apt78, a

local community hub. Wordat4F participated in Sankofa

“Slamnesty: Activism through storytelling” and hosted the first

ever Poetry Slam Competition in Washington Heights.

In 2015, feeling dismissed as a Dominican American writer in many literary spaces, she decided to create

the Dominican Writers Association a 501 c3 non-profit organization solely dedicated to

highlighting content that not only promotes the works of Dominican Writers but also provides

them with the tools and resources necessary for their development. Angy is the Creative Director

of Dominican Writers and along with the Board manages and creates content that serves a large

population of writers:

www.dominicanwriters.com

IG: @dominicanwriters

Twitter: @domwriters

inyaddyswords.co

IG & Twitter: @yaddyv_____

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