Alex Espinoza es un aclamado escritor queer y educador cuyas obras exploran temas de identidad, migración y herencia cultural. Su primera novela, "Still Water Saints", recibió elogios generalizados de la crítica, consolidándolo como una voz distintiva en la literatura contemporánea. Su segunda novela, "The Five Acts of Diego León", obtuvo el American Book Award de 2014 de la Before Columbus Foundation. Espinoza también es autor de la obra de no ficción "Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime", que examina la historia LGBTQ+. Su cuento "Detainment" fue incluido en la antología Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories de 2022, demostrando su versatilidad en diversos géneros.
Nacido en Tijuana, México, de padres purépechas de Michoacán, Espinoza se crió en el sur de California, basando gran parte de su escritura en las intersecciones de la vida mexicoamericana. Sus ensayos y reseñas han aparecido en publicaciones destacadas como el New York Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Times y NPR. Beneficiario de becas del National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference y MacDowell, la obra de Espinoza se celebra por su prosa lírica y narrativa íntima.
Actualmente, Espinoza ocupa la cátedra Tomás Rivera y es profesor de escritura creativa en la Universidad de California, Riverside. Reside en Los Ángeles con su esposo, Kyle. Su próxima novela, "The Sons of El Rey", será publicada en junio de 2024 por Simon & Schuster, ampliando aún más sus contribuciones literarias.
Novelas independientes
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Still Water Saints
2007
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The Five Acts of Diego Leon
2013
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The Sons of El Rey
2024
Libros de no ficción
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Cruising
2019
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Books (by with T. Jackie Cuevas)
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Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production (By: Marivel T. Danielson)
2009
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Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (By: Regina M. Marchi)
2009
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Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (By: Regina M. Marchi)
2009
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Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (By: Priscilla Peña Ovalle)
2010
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The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe (By: Rodolfo F. Acuña)
2011
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The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (By: Lisa Jarvinen)
2012
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (By: Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.)
2012
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Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging (By: Luis F.B. Plascencia)
2012
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Zapotecs on the Move: Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective (By: Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez)
2013
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Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art (By: Marci R. McMahon)
2013
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Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging (By: Maya Socolovsky)
2013
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Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands (By: A. Gabriel Meléndez)
2013
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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture (By: Desirée A. Martín)
2013
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Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption (By: Cecilia M. Rivas)
2014
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Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement (By: Xóchitl Bada)
2014
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Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence (By: Maraia Acosta Cruz)
2014
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The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos: Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico (By: Marie-Theresa Hernandez)
2014
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Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship (By: Amalia Pallares)
2014
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Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II (By: Colin Gunckel)
2015
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Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest (By: Mario Jimenez Sifuentez)
2016
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Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature (By: Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue)
2016
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From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (By: Allison E. Fagan)
2016
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In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles (By: Jerry Gonzalez)
2017
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LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (By: Susan Thananopavarn)
2018
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Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (By: T. Jackie Cuevas)
2018
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Constituting Central American–Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (By: Maritza E. Cárdenas)
2018
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Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West (By: Anita Huizar-Hernandez)
2019
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Parcels: Memories of Salvadoran Migration (By: Mike Anastario)
2019
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Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility (By: Isabel Martínez)
2019
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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
2020
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Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (By: José M Alamillo)
2020
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Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (By: Juan Poblete, Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcon, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer)
2021
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Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications (By: Melissa Villa-Nicholas)
2022
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Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater (By: Israel Reyes)
2022
Akashic Noir Books
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San Francisco Noir
2002
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Seattle Noir
2003
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Bronx Noir
2003
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Brooklyn Noir
2004
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Brooklyn Noir 2
2005
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Chicago Noir
2005
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Dublin Noir
2005
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Manhattan Noir
2006
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Miami Noir
2006
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D.C. Noir
2006
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Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly American