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Lilvia Soto

author of 'Lies of an Indispensable Nation'

About Lilvia

Lilvia Soto, Ph.D., poet, essayist, and independent researcher, was a professor of Spanish American ilterature at Harvard University and an administrator (Assistant Dean) at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the first director of La Casa Latina: The Univserity of Pennsylvania Center for Hispanic Excellence and the Resident Director of the Study Abroad Program in Seville, Spain, for students of Cornell, Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Soto was born in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, and migrated to the United States at the age of fiffteen. She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has published poetry, short fiction, essays, literary criticism, and literary translations in journals and anthologies in many countries. Her collection of bilingual poems, bajo las palabras / under the words, appeared in Editorial Garabatos, Hermosillo, Sonora, in 2015. Her second collection of bilingual poems, Lengua lanzadera enhebrada / Tongue Threaded Shuttle, was published in 2017, also in Editorial Garabatos. She is preparing a collection of poems and essays about her ancestors in the context of the Mexican Revolution. Lilvia is a member of the art collective We Are You Project International (www.weareyouproject.org). You can read some of her works at www.lilviasoto.com.

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