![]() She frequently writes about immigration, biculturalism, and transnationalism in both English and Spanish. She was awarded the Boston Review Fiction Prize in 2008 for her story, "Desaliento," and was the recipient of a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014. She has studied in Paris and has taught creative writing at the University of Miami and elsewhere.Įngel's work has appeared in The Sun, A Public Space, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, among many others, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2017, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and more. ![]() She earned a bachelor's degree in French and Art History from New York University in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from Florida International University in 2007. She was raised in New Jersey and attended public schools. ![]() ![]() The San Francisco Chronicle called Engel, "a unique and necessary voice for the Americas." Early life and education Įngel was born to Colombian parents who immigrated to the United States. She is also the author of It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, and the novel The Veins of the Ocean, which won the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. ![]() She was the first woman, and Vida the first book in translation, to receive the prize. Patricia Engel is a Colombian-American writer and author of Vida, which was a PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award Finalist and winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, Colombia's national prize in literature. ![]()
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