Velorio - Xavier Navarro Aquino

Aquino, Xavier Navarro: - Xavier Navarro Aquino was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His fiction has appeared in Tin House , McSweeney's Quarterly Concern , and Guernica . He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Aquino is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches in the MFA program.