Alexandra Lytton 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.

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. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University and an MFA in fiction Pacific University. She also has a degree in visual art and photography. she returned to San Salvador, El Salvador after getting married. As an extension of Kalina, she is the Chief Editor-in-Spanish and a translator for La Piscucha Magazine. Similarly, Lytton Regalado was an editor and translator for Vanishing Points / Puntos de Fuga: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017). She edited and translated Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017).

She is an Associate Editor at Supporting Women Writers in Miami.

Her work appeared in Bomb, poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review, 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. Her earlier work Matria won the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. She also won the Coniston Poetry Prize in 2015 as selected by Lynn Emmanuel.

Works

Relinquenda, Beacon Press, 2022. Piedra, La Chifurnia, 2022. Matria, Black Lawrence Press, 2017. Puntos de fuga: Prosa salvadoreña contemporánea / Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose, Executive Editor, published by Editorial Kalina, El Salvador, 2017. 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.