Alexandra Lytton Regalado
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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 |
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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]
Career
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.
Awards
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]