Luis Negrón (born 1970 in Guayama, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican writer.
Negrón originally studied journalism, which he said taught him how to write and gave him confidence. He lives in Santurce, a barrio in San Juan, and works in a bookstore.
His debut short story collection, Mundo Cruel, was published in 2010 and has seen five printings in Spanish. The stories in the book focus on gay life in Santurce."Luis Negrón keeps 'Mundo Cruel' brief, but enjoyable" . The Daily Texan, March 18, 2013. An English translation by Suzanne Jill Levine was published by Seven Stories Press in 2013,Bruce Benderson, "The Queen of Satire". Out, February 18, 2013. and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014."Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". Washington Post, June 2, 2014.
He was also coeditor, with David Caleb Acevedo and Moisés Agosto, of Los otros cuerpos, an anthology of writing by LGBT Puerto Ricans."Puerto Rican lit coming out tonight in New York". New York Daily News, June 25, 2008. As of 2014, Negrón was working a novel, memoir, and play.
Influences Negrón has claimed filmmakers R. W. Fassbinder and John Waters as influences, as well as French writer Jean Genet and Argentinean author Manuel Puig.
Works Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y queer desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora. (2007, ) Mundo Cruel (2010, ) Mundo Cruel: Stories, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine (2013, ) Los Tres Golpes, (2016, )
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