User:TheMassiveMexican69/Alex Espinoza (author)

Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and is a Professor and Author. Alex has won the Margaret Bridgeman Fellowship in Faction at the Bread Loaf Writers' conference, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose, The American Book Award (The Five Acts of Diego Leon), and the MacDowell Fellow. Alex was awarded the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of California, RIverside. Alex is a disabled man who is also gay.

Early life
Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and grew up in Los Angeles. Alex used to work at a carpet mill. When Alex was in high school and even after he graduated, he worked as a sales clerk. His brothers had been welders, machinists, and mechanics. His sisters worked in fast food restaurant, folded sheets for medical linen companies, and had jobs where they scrubbed toilets for office buildings in downtown Los Angeles.

Education
Alex was a Puente Student where he realized his talent for writing in community college. He then transferred to the University of California-Riverside where he got a BA in Creative Writing and then got an MFA from UC-Irvines program in writing.

Influences
Alex Espinoza would be inspired to create his stories would be his influence by dark and moody alternative music. Alex is also influenced by the haunting tunes of Agnes Obel, Mazzy Star, and Daughter. another thing that influence Alex to create was the experience and lives of the undocumented, the forgotten and the unseen.

Career
When being a 19yr old Alex Espinoza had trouble deciding his career and what he wanted in life. thanks to this, Alex put his ye in the "Puente program" program that helped him to meet his love for writing. After finding his passion for writing and having and adventure to get into his university, Alex Espinoza graduated from University Of California- Riverside. During this period, Alex Espinoza after doing so, Alex Espinoza started writing his own novels which where mostly inspire in his love for fictional stories. When working he develop and published his first novel "Still Water Saints" published by Random House in March 2007. Once his career as author elevated his work appeared in vary journals and news. thanks to this and many other books he receive many awards that include 2009 Margaret Bridgeman Fellowship in Fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. To this day, Alex Espinoza teaches in the school that saw him grow UC-Riverside and serves as a tutor for many Puente students, who like him, try to find their purpose in life.

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Writing style
KEEP IF YOU CAN FIND SOURCES ON THIS, BUT DITCH IF NOT.

BOOK TITLE
Still Water Saints, The Five Acts of Diego Leon, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, Speculative Los Angeles, The Dream Within and Other Stories.

ESSAYS
Coyotes