A long-time resident of Miami, Florida, Celeste was born in Elyria, Ohio of Scottish and Irish ancestry, and grew up happily multicultural and multilingual in these United States. University-educated at Michigan, Princeton and Duke, she has also studied Haitian, Colombian, Trinidadian, and Afro-Cuban dance, drumming, and song for more than 30 years, classical European voice for 17 years, and Scottish traditional singing for 6 years. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Florida Folklife Council.

Landeros’ artwork is primarily produced in community collaboration, through groups she founded including Carnival Arts, Digital Hostage, Los 404, and WORDD. She is also proud to have worked with choreographers and performance artists Andros Zins-Browne; Dorís Garcia; Tino Seghal; Jenny Larsson, Octavio Campos, and in Leslie Neal’s prison arts program, Artspring.

Her artwork has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs; by commissions by Faena Arts, Reading Queer and the Miami International Airport’s mia galleries; and by the generous donations of family and friends.

Currently a professor of English and Humanities at Barry University in Miami Shores, Celeste was formerly an assistant professor of English at Penn State, a Fulbright professor at La Javeriana in Bogotá, and a visiting professor of dance theory at UC-Riverside. She co-edited the landmark Latinx dance studies anthology, Everynight Life with José Esteban Muñoz and have published in academic journals including Dance Research Journal, Small Axe, Cultural Critique, and Public.

In between, she worked in journalism, as an arts writer and national Latin music critic for New Times Media from 1999-2004 and managing editor of the Latin men’s lifestyle magazine, LOFT and the event industry trade magazine, BizBash. She was the founding editor of artburstmiami.com and founding publisher of the now-defunct Miami city magazine, category305.com. She has contributed arts criticism to the Miami Herald, WLRN public radio, Opera News, and VICE Magazine.