Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Alexandra Lytton Regalado reading at busboys and poets, Washington, DC
GenrePoetry
Notable worksRelinquenda
Notable awardsNational Poetry Series, St. Lawrence Book Prize, Coniston Poetry Prize
Website
www.alexandralyttonregalado.com
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lytton and the second or maternal family name is Regalado.

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]

Early life

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]

Works

  • Relinquenda, Beacon Press, 2022. ISBN 9780807007105[17][18][19]
  • Piedra, La Chifurnia, 2022.
  • Matria, Black Lawrence Press, 2017. ISBN 9781625579652
  • Puntos de fuga: Prosa salvadoreña contemporánea / Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose, Executive Editor, published by Editorial Kalina, El Salvador, 2017. ISBN 9789996179037
  • La Medusa, and: La Doña, Cream City Review, 2016.
  • Teatro bajo mi piel, Una Antología de poesía contemporánea salvadoreña / Theatre Under My Skin, An Anthology of Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry, Executive Editor, 291 pages, published by Editorial Kalina, El Salvador, 2014. ISBN 9789992387672

References

  1. ^ "Introducing The Winner: Alexandra Lytton Regalado". Radar. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  2. ^ a b "CT Latino's Work In New Collection of Salvadoran Stories". ctlatinonews.com. 2017-12-24. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  3. ^ a b "Poetry Connection: El Salvador Edition". The Santa Barbara Independent. 2023-12-06. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  4. ^ Regalado, Alexandra Lytton (2012-09-20). "Alexandra Lytton Regalado". Narrative Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  5. ^ "Poeta salvadoreña obtiene el prestigioso premio estadounidense The National Poetry Series". Noticias de El Salvador (in Spanish). 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  6. ^ "10 Central American Poets You Should Be Reading". Remezcla. 14 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  7. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ "Libros bilingües de Editorial Kalina que impulsan a escritores nacionales". Noticias de El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  9. ^ "10 Central American Poets You Should Be Reading". Remezcla. 14 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  10. ^ "About". SWWIM. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  11. ^ "Two Poems". BOMB Magazine. 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  12. ^ "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón? by Alexandra Lytton Regalado - Poems". poets.org. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  13. ^ "2 Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado". The Los Angeles Review. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  14. ^ admin (2021-09-02). "Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 National Poetry Series". National Poetry Series. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  15. ^ "Matria". Black Lawrence Press. 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  16. ^ "Introducing The Winner: Alexandra Lytton Regalado". Radar. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ "Alexandra Lytton Regalado: la escritora en la entrada a Relinquenda". Noticias de El Salvador. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
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