Valentina Peguero Reyes, a scholar, historian, and writer, was born in Dajabon, Dominican Republic. Her parents were Angel María Peguero Muñoz and Isabel Reyes de Peguero. The couple had two daughters, Eusebia and Valentina , and two sons, Angel Leoncio y Rafael Ignacio. Valentina completed her primary and secondary studies in her hometown. She went to Santiago to study at the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in 1966. She married William Lawlor, a poet, writer, and professor of English, in 1982. In that year, she moved to the United States, where she now resides in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA.
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