Francisco Laguna Correa
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Biography
Francisco Laguna Correa is a Chicano-Mexican writer and editor, born in Mexico City, who resides in the United States. He is the author of the book of flash fictions Finales felices (2012), which was awarded the 2012 National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City. His book of prose poems Crush Me: Ría Brava (a broken novel) was awarded the International Poetry Prize "Desiderio Macías Silva" of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes in 2013.
Education
He graduated with a double BA in Hispanic Studies and Liberal Studies at the UNAM and Portland State University, he also holds two master's degrees, one in Immigration and another in Hispanic Philosophy, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh to join the Creative Writing program and teach undergraduate clases of Critical Thinking and Writing in English.
Literary Awards
(2012) National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) in the United States
(2013) International Poetry Prize of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes in Mexico
Published work
- (2011) Crítica literaria y otros cuentos, Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615520669
- (2012) Finales felices, North American Academy of the Spanish Language, New York, ISBN 978-0-9850961-4-4
- (2012) Finales felices, Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615719473
- (2013) Crítica literaria y otros cuentos (corregidos y aumentados), Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615794823
- (2013) Finales felices, rdeditores, Seville, Spain, ISBN 9788415658405
- (2014) ‘Los esclavos’, Sub-Urbano Ed., Miami, Collection 20/40 (20 Latin American writers under the age of 40)
- (2014) Resquebrajadura (deforme y mutilado, este relato...), Editorial Paroxismo, ISBN 0615984061
- (2016) Wild North, Rayo Press, ISBN 978-0998139807
- (2016) Crush Me, Radical Narratives, ISBN 978-0998139814