Spanish and Portuguese
Erik Alonso grew up in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico. He studied psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he graduated with a thesis on the walks of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs in Mexico. His book Los procesos received the National Young Essay Award José Vasconcelos 2014. Thanks to the GSAS Fellowship Award, he pursued an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU, where he also was an adjunct language instructor. He has been a fellow of the Mexican Letters Foundation, the Young Creators program of FONCA, the Latinx project at NYU, among other institutions. In 2019, he was a writer-in-residence at the Leighton Artists Studios of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. His research interests are focused on contemporary Latin American art and literature, subaltern urbanism, and history of colonialism and extractivism.