Alberto Quintero

Alberto Quintero was born in Mexico and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. His research interests are in the areas of contemporary Latin American literature, poetry,  and queer theory. He is a co-founder and managing editor of Literalia, a digital publishing and translation platform connecting Mexican authors with readers across the world. He co-edited with celebrated Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright Carmen Boullosa Let’s Talk About Your Wall: Mexican Writers Respond to the Immigration Crisis, published by The New Press. From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program at The New School in New York City, and he is currently an EDGE Fellow and a McCoy Center for Ethics in Society Fellow  at Stanford University.