George Mario Angel Quintero - Guest Editor for ISSUE XXXIX
The son of Colombian parents, George Mario Angel Quintero was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, where he spent his first thirty years. He studied literature at the University of California, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Under the name George Angel, he has published poetry, fiction, and essays in English, as well as two books of short prose works, The Fifth Season, which won the 1995 Fiction Collective 2 Nilon Award, and gossamer buttresses in 2023. A new and selected poems, On the Voice, was published in 2016. Since 1995, he has lived in Medellin, Colombia, authoring seven books of poetry, three books of theater plays, and a book of short prose, all in Spanish under the name Mario Angel Quintero. He is a visual artist, and the director and playwright of the theatre company Parpado Teatro, as well as a founding member of several musical groups. He is regularly invited to share his work at international festivals. Portions of his work have been translated into Macedonian, Portuguese, Swedish, Croatian, Bulgarian, French, Italian, Albanian, and Arabic.
