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]

Works

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References

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  2. "Introducing The Winner: Alexandra Lytton Regalado". Radar. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
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  4. "10 Central American Poets You Should Be Reading". Remezcla. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  5. "Two Poems". BOMB Magazine. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
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