Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Alexandra Lytton Regalado is the author of Relinquenda (Beacon Press, 2022), winner of the National Poetry Series, and Matria (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Her poems, stories, and nonfiction have been published by poets.org, BOMB, cream city review, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review, the Notre Dame Review, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Florida International University and an MFA in fiction from Pacific University. Co-founder of Kalina publishing, she is the author, editor, and/or translator of more than 15 Central American-themed books, including Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017). She is a CantoMundo fellow, the winner of the 2015 Coniston Poetry Prize, and was the recipient of the third Letras Latinas / PINTURA PALABRA DC Ekphrastic residencies. She currently lives in San Salvador with her husband and three children.