Alexandra Lytton Regalado

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Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, translator, and poet. Her book Relinquenda, won the National Poetry Series. [1] Her book. Matria, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. She is a CantoMundo fellow, and she won a Coniston prize. [2]

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Life

She graduated from Florida International University, and Pacific University. [3]

She co-founded Kalina publishing. [4] She edited and translated Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017).

She is chief editor at lapisuchamagazine.com; she is assistant editor at Supporting Women Writers in Miami.

Her work appeared in Bomb. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Poeta salvadoreña obtiene el prestigioso premio estadounidense The National Poetry Series". Noticias de El Salvador - Noticias de El Salvador, noticias internacionales, salvadoreños por el mundo, economia, negocios, politica, deportes, entretenimiento, tecnologia, turismo, tendencias, fotos, videos, redes sociales. 2021-09-24. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  2. ↑ "Introducing The Winner: Alexandra Lytton Regalado". Radar. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  3. ↑ Regalado, Alexandra Lytton (2012-09-20). "Alexandra Lytton Regalado | Narrative Magazine". www.narrativemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  4. ↑ "10 Central American Poets You Should Be Reading". Remezcla. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  5. ↑ "Two Poems". BOMB Magazine. 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  6. ↑ Peña-Calderon, Mirtle (August 25, 2022). "Alexandra Lytton Regalado on How Grief Inspired "Relinquenda"". People en Español (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  7. ↑ "Newly Published Poetry, From Alice Fulton to Saeed Jones". The New York Times. 2022-10-12. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  8. ↑ "Alexandra Lytton Regalado: la escritora en la entrada a Relinquenda". Noticias de El Salvador - Noticias de El Salvador, noticias internacionales, salvadoreños por el mundo, economia, negocios, politica, deportes, entretenimiento, tecnologia, turismo, tendencias, fotos, videos, redes sociales. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
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