Alexandra Lytton Regalado | |
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 Alexandra Lytton Regalado reading at busboys and poets, Washington, DC | |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Relinquenda |
| Notable awards | National Poetry Series, St. Lawrence Book Prize, Coniston Poetry Prize |
| Website | |
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Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, translator, and poet. She is known for her prize-winning books Relinquenda and Matria. She is a CantoMundo fellow, and she won a Coniston prize. [1]
Lytton Regalado was born in El Salvador but moved to the Miami, Florida in the United States at the age of 7 amidst El Salvador's civil war. [2] [3] She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University and an MFA in fiction Pacific University. [4] She also has a degree in visual art and photography. [3] After living in the US for 24 years, [5] she returned to San Salvador, El Salvador after getting married. [2]
She co-founded Kalina publishing alongside Lucía de Sola in 2006 which published bilingual works by Salvadorans within and outside El Salvador. [6] [7] As an extension of Kalina, she is the Chief Editor-in-Spanish and a translator for La Piscucha Magazine. [7] She has also collaborated to translate Kalina authors such as Kijadurías and Lauri García Dueñas. [8] Similarly, Lytton Regalado was an editor and translator for Vanishing Points / Puntos de Fuga: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017).. [9] She edited and translated Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017).
She is an Associate Editor at Supporting Women Writers in Miami. [10]
Her work appeared in Bomb, [11] poets.org, [12] and The Los Angeles Review, [13] among others.
Lytton Regalado's most recent work, Relinquenda was a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series and was chosen by Reginald Betts. [14] Her earlier work Matria won the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. [15] She also won the Coniston Poetry Prize in 2015 as selected by Lynn Emmanuel. [16]