Xavier Navarro Aquino
Assistant Professor, English
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies; Faculty Fellow, Initiative on Race and Resilience
Areas of study
- African and African American
- Creative Writing
- Latinx
- Postcolonial/Global
Education
Ph.D. English, Literature and Creative Writing. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A. English, Caribbean Studies. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
B.A. English, Literary Studies. Iowa State University
Research and teaching interests
Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Hispanic/Latinx Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Poetry, African and African American Literature
Biography
Xavier Navarro Aquino was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Named one of the writers to watch for fall 2021 by Publishers Weekly, Navarro Aquino is the author of the novel, Velorio out from HarperCollins and in Spanish from HarperCollins Español. His fiction has appeared in Tin House magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Guernica, among others. Navarro Aquino has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship at Dartmouth College.
