Luis Aguilar-Monsalve

Aguilar Monsalve received a BA from Loyola Marymount University, an MA from Claremont Graduate University, an MA and PhD degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in Political Science. He was a lecturer in language, culture and literature at UCLA from 1982-1995. He was also professor of Latin American literature and cultures at the Hanover College since 2006 to 2016. From 2001 to 2006, he was visiting assistant professor and writer-in-residence at Wabash College; from 1995 to 2001 he was Professor of Latin American Literature, Political Science and International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

Luis Aguilar Monsalve has published nineteen books of short-stories since 1986, some of them with several editions. As well, he has published one novel with Editorial Verbum, two books of essays and one anthology of Ecuadorian Short Stories from the 21st Century and one anthology of Ecuadorian flash fiction.

2013 The Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity.

2012 Fray Vicente Solano Award for Outstanding Educator and Creative Writer

2012 Member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language

1996 Member of Group America

Luis Aguilar Monsalve is included in the following anthologies:

• Literatura del Ecuador (cuatrocientos años) crítica y selecciones (2001)[20]
• Antología Básica e Histórica del Cuento Ecuatoriano. Quito. Décima Primera Edición Actualizada (2004).
• El cuento ecuatoriano 1970-2010 (2012)[21]
• Narrativa de Azuay y Cañar (2012)[22]
• Antología básica e historia del cuento ecuatoriano (2016)[23]
• Antología bilingüe del cuento ecuatoriano de inicios del siglo XXI (2017)[24]
• Cuentos migrantes (2017)[25]
• Antología del Microcuento Ecuatoriano (2019) Eskeletra editorial.

Books about Luis Aguilar Monsalve:

• Luis Aguilar Monsalve: Acercamiento crítico a su narrativa (2016) Quito. Editorial Ecuador.