Concha Alborg was born in Spain during the difficult years of Francos’s regime. Growing up with an academic father, she became a serious reader from an early age, and dreamed of being a writer. She went to school in Madrid until she moved to the United States with her parents under the auspices of the Fulbright Program, and she stayed to pursue her studies. More than any other event in her life, this move defines who she is, an immigrant living between two cultures. She may seem Americanized to her Spanish
She earned an undergraduate degree, a Masters and a PhD in Spanish Literature. In addition to numerous academic publications, she has been actively writing fiction and creative non-fiction. She retired from Saint Joseph´s University, where she was a professor for over twenty years, to write full time. Concha is an active member of the Philadelphia writing community. As such, she was a board member of Philadelphia Stories, a literary magazine. She also wrote for The Broad Street Review, an online cultural j
Concha Alborg’s first collection of linked short stories, Una noche en casa (Madrid: Huerga & Fierro, 1995), is loosely based on her life experiences and can be read as a novel, since the stories share the same characters. It takes place in Spain during the repressive years of Franco’s regime. The female narrator, with characteristic humor, takes us from Madrid to the very day in which her family boards the plane to the States. Hers is a testimony of many families like her own, who were shaped by the strong
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