Uriel QUESADA

Uriel QUESADA
2005 Resident
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Central America
  • Costa Rica
English
Spanish

Uriel QUESADA is an assistant professor of Spanish at Loyola University in New Orleans. His scholarly work spans several fields including Central American and Caribbean literatures, cultural studies, popular culture, and gay and lesbian studies. His previous publications are the novella “Si trina la canaria” (1999) and four short story collections entitled Ese día de los temblores (1985), El atardecer de los niños (1990), Larga vida al deseo (1996) and Lejos, tan lejos (2004) for which he received the 2005 Ancora national award in Costa Rica. His novel El gato de sí mismo will come out in November 2005. Quesada is currently completing a book on Central American detective fiction.

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Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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