PATRICIA ENGEL
New York Times BestSelling + INTERNATIONALLY AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST
EXPERTISE
Immigration and Colombian Diaspora
Latinx Identity and Representation
Biculturalism and Transnationalism
The Writer’s Life
Fiction
HOME BASE
Miami, FL
LINKS
Patricia Engel is the author of, most recently, the story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, a Reese's Book Club, Esquire Book Club and Book of the Month Club pick, an Indie Next pick and an Amazon Best Book of the Year in addition to being a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Her other acclaimed and award-winning books include The Veins of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award, and Vida, winner of a Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award. For Vida, Patricia was the first woman to be awarded Colombia’s national prize in literature, the 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana.
Born to Colombian parents, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami.
TITLES
