Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Plascencia family eventually settled near Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when he was eight years old. Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. The recipient of a National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Award in Fiction in 1996 and the Peter Neagoe Prize for Fiction in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, its first fellow in fiction.

His first published fiction appeared in "McSweeney's" Issue 12. McSweeney's also published his first novel, "The People of Paper", in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/plascencia/plascencia.html McSweeney's page]
* [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_06_009056.php Bookslut interview]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-review-the-people-of-paper/ 3:AM review]
* [http://www.hobartpulp.com/website/march/sal.html Hobart interview]


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