Alejandro Albarrán Polanco

Alejandro Albarrán Polanco was born in Mexico City. His 2018 poetry collection Algunas personas no son caballos won the Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña. His other books include Ruido (Bonobos Editores), Tengo un pulmón que no es el cielo (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, La Ciebita), and Persona fea y ridícula (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro). He has received grants from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, and Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura. He is a founding editor of the press Canón Accidental and co-director of the radio program Radio Rara. He is also a musician and conceptual artist whose performances, installations, and artist’s books have been featured in numerous art exhibitions. His poems have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Polish, and Swedish, and will be featured in Best American Experimental Writing 2020. La Tempestad magazine named him the Emerging Writer of 2017.