Poet, Academic, and Researcher
Jorge Gutiérrez Reyna holds a master’s degree in Mexican literature (Maestro en Letras Mexicanas) from Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and is a PhD candidate in letters at UNAM. He teaches colonial literature at UNAM and poetry at the Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana. Jorge also coordinates the Historia de las literaturas en México (siglos xvi-xviii) [History of Mexican Literature (16th-18th centuries)] together with Ana Castaño and Jessica Locke, from the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas.
He published “Óyeme con los ojos. Poesía visual novohispana” (2014) [Hear me with your eyes: Colonial Visual Poetry]. He was a fellow of the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas in the area of poetry in 2012-2014. In 2016 he won the City and Nature José Emilio Pacheco Literary Prize, awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, for the collection of poems El otro nombre de los árboles [The Other Name for Thees] (2018).