Background
He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in 1968.
He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in 1968.
He has studied creative writing with Chilean author Diamela Eltit. 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, Ifá and Santería 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.
He has a Bachelors in Sciences from The George Washington University (1990) and a Masters in Science from Johns Hopkins University (1998). He is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University under the supervision of Professor Eduardo Subirats Rüggeberg.
He has published two novels, Louisiana Patografía and Number quiero quedarme sola y vacía.
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. Lozada is Human Immunodeficiency Virus-positive and has talked and written openly and explicitly about his health condition in his fiction and interviews.
Lozada, Ángel (2013).
El Libro de la Letra A. New York: Sangria Legibilities. Lozada, Ángel (2006). Number quiero quedarme sola y vacía.
San Juan: Isla Negra.
Online Computer Library Center 74814318. ASIN B006QYQYH2 Lozada, Ángel (1998). Louisiana Patografía. México: Editorial Planeta. Becerra, Eduardo (1999).
Líneas aéreas. Ediciones Lengua de Trapo. Ortega-Esquivel, Aureliano.
Juan Pascual Gay (2010). Escritura y esquizofrenia.
Universidad de Guanajuato. Paz-Soldán, Edmundo. Alberto Fuguet (2000). Se habla español. Alfaguara.
Pérez-Ortiz, Melanie (2008). Palabras encontradas: Antología personal de escritores puertorriqueños de los últimos veinte años (Conversaciones). Ediciones Callejón.
Quiroga, José (2010).
Mapa Callejero: Crónicas sobre lo gay desde América Latina. Eterna Cadencia. Suarez-Coalla, Paquita (2006).
Aquí me tocó escribir.
