Alex Espinoza is an

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writer and educator, living in Los Angeles. He has written the novels ''Still Water Saints'' (2007) and ''The Five Acts of Diego León'' (2013), as well as ''Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime'' (2019).

Life and work

Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved with his family to the United States at age two, growing up in suburban Los Angeles. He graduated from the

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, and earned an MFA from the

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's Program in Writing. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside where he serves as the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing, and lives in Los Angeles.

Publications

*''Still Water Saints'', published in

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as "''Los Santos de Agua Mansa, California''" (Random House, 2007) *''The Five Acts of Diego León'' (Random House, 2013) *''Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime'' ( Unnamed, 2019)

Awards

*2014:

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from the

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for ''The Five Acts of Diego León'' *2014: Fellowship in Prose from the

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*2019: MacDowell fellowship

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