Manolo Nunez Negron

Guest Professor ECT 105 Introduction to Literature and ECT 611 Narrative Workshop

Manolo Núñez Negrón is a native of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. He studied Latin American literature and history at the University of Puerto Rico, New York University, and Harvard, where he received his doctorate in 2010. He was a professor of Hispanic Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He was a columnist for the section Footpath de The new day and has published two books of stories, The craft of vertigo (2010) and Fish Food (2016), a short novel, Chinese bar (2012) and a book of chronicles with the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture Publishing House: Burundanga ExpressHe is one of twenty Puerto Rican writers awarded the Letras Boricuas Prize in 2021 by the Flamboyán Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and received the Nuevas Voces Prize in 2013.