Alex Espinoza (writer)
Alex Espinoza is an American writer and educator, living in Los Angeles. He has written the novels Still Water Saints (2007) and The Five Acts of Diego León (2013), as well as Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (2019).
Life and work
[edit]Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved with his family to the United States at age two, growing up in suburban Los Angeles.[1] He graduated from the University of California, Riverside, and earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine's Program in Writing.[2]
He teaches at the University of California, Riverside where he serves as the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing, and lives in Los Angeles.[2][3]
Publications
[edit]- Still Water Saints, published in Spanish as "Los Santos de Agua Mansa, California" (Random House, 2007)
- The Five Acts of Diego León (Random House, 2013)[4]
- Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (Unnamed, 2019)[5][6]
Awards
[edit]- 2014: American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León[7]
- 2014: Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts[8]
- 2019: MacDowell fellowship[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alex Espinoza - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ a b "Home". Alex Espinoza. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ a b "Alex Espinoza - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ Arana, Marie (4 April 2013). "Book review: 'The Five Acts of Diego Leon,' by Alex Espinoza". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ Nava, Michael (12 June 2019). "Cruising for Sex, Cruising the Political: Alex Espinoza's "Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ "Latin Hollywood: Alex Espinoza's "The Five Acts of Diego Léon"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ "Alex Espinoza Wins American Book Award". huizachemag.org. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ "Alex Espinoza". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
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