Author Event: Alejandro Puyana

Alejandro Puyana
Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series
November 7, 2024 at 6pm
Carter Auditorium (JBWS 186)

Alejandro Puyana, who came to the United States from Venezuela at the age of twenty-six, received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His recently released debut novel Freedom is a Feast has already won the Westport Prize for Literature. Puyana’s work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The American Scholar, and elsewhere, and his story “Hands of Dirty Children” was reprinted in Best American Short Stories. He lives with his wife and daughter in Austin, Texas.