Alejandro Reyes Juárez
He was born in México City and has been living in Ixtapaluca, State of México, for more than fifteen years.
He is a Doctor of Research in Social Sciences (FLACSO-México), has a diploma in Literary Creation (INBA), and has participated in poetry workshops coordinated by, among others: Carmen Alardín, Eduardo Cerecedo (in the FARO de Oriente), Eduardo H. González, María Rivera, Raúl Renán, Héctor Carreto and Ernesto Lumbreras.
He has published Echoes and Silences (Eterno Femenino, 2011) and To the Edge (Tintanueva, 2013); and he has compiled Against Oblivion: Poems for the Evocation of the Absentees (Alja, 2015). His poems and short stories have been included in various anthologies and magazines, among them De Neza York a Nueva York / From Neza York to New York (Cofradía de Coyotes, 2015). He has also published textbooks and research reports, among which are: Adolescences Between Walls: The secondary School as Space for the Construction of Youth Identities (FLACSO, 2009); Beyond the Walls: Rural Adolescences and Student Experiences in Telesecundarias (COMIE, 2011); and History 1 and 2 (Larousse, 2013).
He won First Place in the Third Contest of Poetry, Francisco Javier Estrada in 2011; was National Prize of Poetry Tintanueva in 2013, and finalist in the Second Contest of Literary Creation, UNAM-San Antonio-Letters at the Border, 2014, in the category of fiction.
