Luis Negrón

Luis Negrón (born in 1970) is a Puerto Rican writer. He was born in the city of Guayama, Puerto Rico, and dedicated his life and work to the community there. He studied journalism and has written film reviews for important Puerto Rican publications including Claridad and El Poeta. He has contributed significantly to Puerto Rico's queer arts scene, serving as the organization's first founder and sponsor of cultural and artistic performances for the past ten years, Producciones Mano Santa. He co-edited Los Otros Cuerpos, an anthology of queer writing from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Luis Negrón begin his writing after learning how to write and gaining confidence after he studied journalism. His first collection of short stories, Mundo Cruel, was released in 2010 and has gone through five printings in Spanish. The stories in the book are primarily about LGBT life in Santiago. The book was translated into English by Suzanne Jill Levine, it was then published by Seven Stories Press in 2013 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.

Luis Negrón now lives in Santurce, a barrio in San Juan, and works in a bookstore. He is still actively continuing his writing and supporting the LGBTQ+ community in Santurce. Talk about his next work, he said: "I’m working on a short novel using part of my childhood as the main material. It is not an autobiography, because as a storyteller, the joy I find in writing comes from creating. It is not only about growing up gay, it is also about growing up poor and how the struggle to survive in the margins of society can feed the imagination in order to resist."