Ángel Luis Lozada Novalés (Ángel Lozada) is a Puerto Rican novelist, activist, educator and scholar.

Biography

He was born in Mayagüez,

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, in 1968. He has a Bachelors in Sciences from

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(1990) and a Masters in Science from

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(1998). He is a Ph. D. candidate at the European Graduate School. He also engaged in graduate studies in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at

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under the supervision of Prof. Eduardo Subirats Rüggeberg.Interview
''Intellectuals against Academics'', 12/2009. He has studied creative writing with Chilean author

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. He has published two novels, ''La Patografía'' and ''No quiero quedarme sola y vacía''. Ángel Lozada was a

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from the Maryland Province (1994–1996). He has been initiated in several African American religious traditions, and is a Palero (since 1998) and a Santero priest (since 2000), and has studied with several Palería,

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and

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priests in New York City. He is also a professional intuitive Tarot Reader, and has studied divination and the esoteric tradition with Rachel Pollack and Christine Payne-Towler. Lozada now lives in Pittsburgh, but formerly lived in New York City. Lozada's controversial writings focus on marginalized subjects, animalization, colonization, transculturation, the Puerto Rican Diaspora, and recently, on the relationships between writing, schizophrenia, power and culture as they are deployed via academic discourses and languages. He has written extensively about the experiences of the Puerto Rican Gay subject within the larger context of postmodern, postindustrial American society. Published in 2006, ''No quiero quedarme sola y vacía'' is a novel written in Spanglish. The novel addresses the themes of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York and the marginalization of gender and sexual minorities while criticizing Puerto Rico’s political status. Lozada is

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and has talked and written openly and explicitly about his health condition in his fiction and interviews. Angel Lozada is currently at the PhD program in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at the European Graduate School.

Published novels

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Contribution to anthologies

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Essays

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Una re-visión epistemo-lógica de la educación superior pública de Puerto Rico. Editorial Letra y Pixel, enero 23, 2011
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America the Hungry. November 24, 2010
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Principles of Puerto Rican literary beekeeping. September 26, 2010
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El partido nuevo pato-fóbico. October 24, 2004
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lozada, Angel Puerto Rican male novelists People from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican gay writers Puerto Rican LGBTQ novelists American Santeríans Johns Hopkins University alumni George Washington University alumni 1968 births Living people Gay novelists 20th-century Puerto Rican male writers 21st-century Puerto Rican male writers 20th-century Puerto Rican novelists 21st-century Puerto Rican novelists