Alexandra Lytton Regalado

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Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American writer, translator, and poet. She is the author of Relinquenda and Matria, both prize-winning books. She is a CantoMundo fellow and won the Coniston Poetry Prize in 2015.

She was born in El Salvador and moved to Miami at age seven during the civil war. She earned MFAs in Poetry from Florida International University and in Fiction from Pacific University, and she has a background in visual art and photography. After 24 years in the United States, she returned to San Salvador after marrying.

Regalado co-founded Kalina Publishing in 2006 with Lucía de Sola to publish bilingual Salvadoran writing. She serves as Chief Editor-in-Spanish and a translator for La Piscucha Magazine, and has helped translate works by Kalina authors. She edited and translated Vanishing Points: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose (2017) and works as Associate Editor at Supporting Women Writers in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Bomb, poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review.

Relinquenda won the 2021 National Poetry Series, chosen by Reginald Betts. Her earlier book Matria won the St. Lawrence Book Prize from Black Lawrence Press.