Raquel Gutierrez

raquel gutiérrez writes personal essays, memoir, art criticism, and poetry. A child of Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants, raquel was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. She/they completed MFAs in Poetry and Non-Fiction from the University of Arizona. raquel runs the tiny press, Econo Textual Objects, which publishes works by QTPOC poets. Her/their poetry and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Open Space, and elsewhere. Her/their first book, Brown Neon (Coffee House Press), will be published in the Spring 2021 and her/their first book of poetry, Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press), will be published in 2022.