Quiara Alegría Hudes: ‘When a woman leaves, there is always another woman to provide care in her place. I rebel against that’

Quiara Alegría Hudes, 48, confesses that what saved her life in recent years has been writing and reading. The playwright of Puerto Rican descent rose to fame for her original soundtrack of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights, for which she was nominated for a Tony. After being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for theater on three occasions, she won it in 2012 for Water by the Spoonful, in which she tells the story of a Puerto Rican soldier returning from the Iraq war and having to navigate his birth family, addiction and identity crisis. Since then, the writer’s life has taken many detours, passing through motherhood, caring for sick family members and activism, the latter via her letter exchange project with incarcerated individuals, Emancipated Stories.

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