Salvador Plascencia
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born
December 21, 1976
gender
male
place of birth
Guadalajara, Mexico
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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs
about this author
Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The Plascencia family eventually settled near Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when he was eight years old. Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. The recipient of a National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Award in Fiction in 1996 and the Peter Neagoe Prize for Fiction in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, its first fellow in fiction.
His first published fiction appeared in McSweeney's Issue 12. McSweeney's also published his first novel, The People of Paper, in 2005.
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"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals."
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
"One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me."
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
"Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat."
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)
