Alejandro Castro

Alejandro Castro holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures from New York University. He has worked as an instructor at both the School of Arts and the School of Literature at the Central University of Venezuela. Since 2016, he has lived in the United States, where he teaches Latin American culture. As a poet, Alejandro Castro has authored the following books: Parasitarias (Libros del Fuego, 2020), El lejano oeste (bid&co, 2013), which received the 2014 Book of the Year award from the Venezuelan Bookseller Association, and No es por vicio ni por fornicio: Uranismo y otras parafilias (Monte Ávila, 2011), which won the National Contest for Unpublished Authors in 2010. His nonfiction has been published in digital media, newspapers, and journals. Wild West, the English edition of El lejano oeste, was translated by Arthur Malcolm Dixon for the Miami-based publisher Alliteration in 2023.