{"id":1613,"date":"2020-11-02T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1613"},"modified":"2024-10-03T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:10:29","slug":"nadia-villafuerte","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/nadia-villafuerte\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Villafuerte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nadia Villafuerte<\/strong> (Chiapas, 1978) studied music, literature, and journalism in Mexico. She has received grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Foundation for Mexican Literature, the Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Studies Abroad CONACYT-FONCA, and a Mexican national grant for an artistic residency in New York City in 2013. She has published three fiction books: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barcos en Houston<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mexico, 2005, translated into English and published as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ships in Houston<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the U.S. in 2023), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bfTe gusta el l\u00e1tex, Cielo?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mexico, 2008), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Por el lado salvaje<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mexico, 2011). She is part of the literary anthologies <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M\u00e9xico20: New Voices, Old Traditions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (U.K., 2015, as part of the British Council\/HAY Festival), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palabras mayores, nueva narrativa mexicana<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Spain, 2015), among others. Villafuerte received an MFA from the Creative Writing Program in Spanish and a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures from New York University. She is working on her book <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Southern Mexican Passage: Violence, Expulsion, Memory and Resistance<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she analyzes an array of contemporary Mexican cultural productions (fiction, poetry, documentaries, films, photography, and performance) that offer insights into the overlooked Mexico-Guatemala borderlands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nadia Villafuerte (Chiapas, 1978) studied music, literature, and journalism in Mexico. She has received grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Foundation for Mexican Literature, the Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Studies Abroad CONACYT-FONCA, and a Mexican national grant for an artistic residency in New York City in 2013. She has published [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":1757,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}