Alexandra Lytton Regalado nació en San Salvador, El Salvador, y es una destacada autora, editora y traductora salvadoreño-estadounidense. Es autora de “Relinquenda” (poemas, Beacon Press, 2022), ganador del National Poetry Series, y “Matria” (poemas, Black Lawrence Press, 2017), ganador del St. Lawrence Book Award. Su chapbook “Piedra” fue publicado por La Chifurnia en 2022. Regalado es becaria de CantoMundo y Letras Latinas, y ha sido galardonada con el Coniston Prize. Su trabajo ha aparecido en The Best American Poetry, poets.org, Agni, World Literature Today, Narrative, y en el blog Harriet de The Poetry Foundation, entre otros. Sus traducciones de poesía latinoamericana contemporánea se han publicado en Poetry International, FENCE y Tupelo Quarterly. Además, ha traducido obras como “Family or Oblivion” de Elena Salamanca.
Es cofundadora y editora de Kalina, una editorial que destaca libros bilingües con temas centroamericanos, y es editora asistente en SWWIM Every Day, una revista de poesía en línea para poetas que se identifican como mujeres. Alexandra posee cinturón negro en Kenpo Karate y actualmente reside en San Salvador con su esposo y tres hijos. Su proyecto de ensayo fotográfico sobre El Salvador, “through_the_bulletproof_glass”, se puede ver en Instagram.
Alexandra Lytton Regalado was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, and is a distinguished Salvadoran-American author, editor, and translator. She is the author of Relinquenda (poems, Beacon Press, 2022), winner of the National Poetry Series, and Matria (poems, Black Lawrence Press, 2017), winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. Her chapbook Piedra was published by La Chifurnia in 2022. Regalado is a CantoMundo and Letras Latinas fellow and has been awarded the Coniston Prize. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, poets.org, Agni, World Literature Today, Narrative, and on the Harriet blog of The Poetry Foundation, among others. Her translations of contemporary Latin American poetry have been published in Poetry International, FENCE, and Tupelo Quarterly. Additionally, she has translated works such as Family or Oblivion by Elena Salamanca.
She is the co-founder and editor of Kalina, a publishing house that highlights bilingual books with Central American themes, and she is an assistant editor at SWWIM Every Day, an online poetry journal for poets who identify as women. Alexandra holds a black belt in Kenpo Karate and currently resides in San Salvador with her husband and three children. Her photo essay project on El Salvador, through_the_bulletproof_glass, can be viewed on Instagram.
