ABSTRACT
Ana María Fagundo was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, in 1938. She studied business in Spain, but at the age of twenty she moved to the United States with an Anne Simpson scholarship to study English and Spanish Literature at the University of Redlands. She received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington (Seattle) with a thesis on the life and works of Emily Dickinson. Since 1967, Fagundo has been teaching twentieth-century Spanish Literature at the University of California at Riverside. Fagundo’s writing covers poetry, short stories, essay, and criticism. She has published nine poetry books: Brotes (Sprouts; 1965), Isla adentro (Inland in the Island; 1969), Diario de una muerte (Diary of a Death; 1970), Configurado tiempo (Configuration of Time; 1974), Invención de la luz (Invention of Light; 1978), with which she won the Carabela de Oro Prize in Spain in 1977, Desde Chanatel, el canto (From Chanatel, the Chant; 1981), Como quien no dice voz alguna al viento (As One Who Doesn’t Say Anything to the Wind; 1984), Retornos sobre la siempre ausencia (Return over the Forever Absence; 1989), and El sol, la sombra, en el instante (The Sun, the Shadow, in the Moment; 1994). Her poems can also be found in three anthologies: Obra poética: 1965–1990 (Poetic Work: 19651990; 1990), with an introduction by Candelas Newton, Isla en sí: 1965–1989 (Island itself; 1992), and Antología (1965-1989) (Anthology [1965–1989]), edited by Antonio Martínez Herrarte in 1994. She is the founder of the literary journal Alaluz.
