ABOUT
jo reyes-boitel is a queer, mixed Latine poet, playwright, editor and scholar. As an MFA graduate in Creative Writing from the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, jo was a Presidential Research Fellow and served as an undergraduate creative writing instructor.
Currently in the PhD Literature program at Texas Tech University in Literature with research interests in the borderlands, connections to the environment for those who are marginalized, queer and trans modern American poetry, and alternative archives and canons. Their creative work centers on themes of home, migration, femme identity, and disability within intimate spaces.