José Cardona-López, from Colombia, is an Associate Professor of Spanish American Literature at Texas A&M International University, where he is also the coordinator of the Cooperative Doctoral Program of Hispanic Studies offered by four campuses of the A&M University System. He holds a Doctorate from the University of Kentucky. His major fields of expertise are Narrative in Spain and Spanish America, 20th Century Spanish American Literature, and creative writing. He has published Teoría y práctica de la nouvelle (2003). As a fiction writer professor Cardona-López has published the novel Sueños para una siesta y three short stories books: La puerta del espejo, Siete y tres nueve, and Todo es adrede. He has published articles, essays, short stories, micro-fictions, and poems in several magazines and journals from Argentina, Canadá, Colombia, España, Francia, México, and the United States. He has given readings of his work in various universities in the United States and his home country of Colombia.
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