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Carlos Villacorta (Lima, 1976) is a Peruvian writer and editor. Since 2021, he is part of the New Latino Boom of writers in the United States.

Life
.Carlos Villacorta Gonzales studied Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He was part of the poetry group Inmanencia (1998-2000), with whom he published Inmanencia (1998) and Inmanencia: Regreso a Ouroborea (1999). Between 2001 and 2003 he was editor of the poetry journal Odumodneurtse!, a publication dedicated to contemporary Peruvian and Latin American poetry. In 2004 he traveled to the United States where he finished his graduate studies in Latin American literature at Boston University. Subsequently, he worked at different universities on the North American East Coast. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Maine.

As a writer, he has been invited to different literary events among them the First Poetry June organized in Mexico City (2000); the First International Meeting of Peruvian writers in the United States (D.C., 2015); the First International Meeting of Peruvian writers in France (Paris, 2015); the Latino Book Fair (Brooklyn, NY 2018), Poetry in April, (Chicago, 2021).

He has published the collections of poems El grito, Tríptico, Ciudad Satélite and Materia Oscura. In 2014 he published his first novel Alicia, esto es el capitalismo. In addition, he has published the essay Poetics of the city: Lima in the poetry of the seventies, a study of the Peruvian poetry of the seventies and the representation of the Peruvian capital. Among the poets studied are Carmen Ollé,Jorge Pimentel, Juan Ramírez Ruiz and Enrique Verástegui. Since 2020 he is chief editor of the digital magazine Polis-Poesía.

His poems and short stories have appeared in several Peruvian and international magazines in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan.

Poetry

 * Materia Oscura. Intermezzo Tropical, Lima, 2017.
 * Ciudad Satélite. Mundo Ajeno Editores, Lima, 2007. (Intermezzo Tropical, 2021).
 * Tríptico. Chataro Editores, Lima, 2004.
 * El grito. La cueva Editores, Lima, 2001.

Fiction

 * Alicia, esto es el capitalismo. Intermezzo Tropical Editores, Lima, 2014.

Short stories magazines

 * New Latino Boom
 * Polispoesía

Short stories collection

 * Lo que dijo el fuego. Campo Letrado Editores, 2021.

Short Stories in English


 * “Thirteen Fathers”. The Arkansas International. Fall 202. Issue 11. (Trans. by Gillian Esquivia-Cohen).
 * “Voice Theory”. Latin American Literature Review. Volume 1 N.º 15, agosto 2020.​ (Trans. by Gillian Esquivia-Cohen).

Interviews

 * "Carlos Villacorta: 'La memoria guía mi escritura narrativa y poética'". Lima en escena. Magazine Cultural.


 * "Carlos Villacorta: 'Este es un libro sobre el viaje'". Lamula.pe.


 * "Castañeda y Villacorta: 'La antología es una apuesta por todos los escritores que están allí'. Lamula.pe


 * "Unburied Memories: A Tiny Interview with Carlos Villacorta Gonzales". Ploughshares.


 * "El arte de recordar (la guerra)". Lamula.pe.


 * "Escribir el Perú desde el exterior: una conversación con Carlos Villacorta a propósito de su novela 'Alicia esto es el capitalismo". Aurora Boreal.


 * "Entrevista con el escritor y crítico literario Carlos Villacorta Gonzáles.

Anthology

 * Cuentos de Ida y vuelta: 17 narradores peruanos en Estados Unidos. Co-editado con Luis Hernán Castañeda. Lima: Peisa, 2019
 * Antología Binacional de Cuento / Poesía Perú-Ecuador 1998-2008. Co-editado con Karina Marín. Lima: Editorial Sic. Lima: Perú, 2008.
 * Los relojes se han roto: Antología de poesía peruana de los noventa. Co-editado con Enrique Bernales. Guadalajara: Arlequín editores, 2005.

Essays

 * Poéticas de la ciudad: Lima en la poesía de los setenta. El corregidor, Buenos Aires 2017.