Antonio Guzmán Gómez

Antonio Guzmán Gómez (1982) lives in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, and is a speaker of the Tenejapa variant of Tseltal. He holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas and an MA in Education Science from the Universidad Mesoamericana. He is a member of the Abriendo Caminos (Clearing Paths): José Antonio Reyes Matamoros cultural organization. He is the author of Kuxinel bit’il k’ajk’ / Vivir como fuego (2017) and Xch’ulel Balam / Kuxinel bit’il k’ajk’ // Espíritu Jaguar / Vivir como fuego (2021) and the co-author of  La Fuerza de la Tierra (Taller literario Bertolt Brecht, 2004), Sab Xojob / Vapor de luz (poetry anthology, 2007), Ts’unun: los sueños del colibrí, poemario en cuatro lenguas de Chiapas: Ch’ol, tsotsil, zoque y tseltal (2017), and Anhelo de reposo (poetry anthology, 2019). His poems and essays have been published in Nuestra Sabiduría, revista multilingüe, Ojarasca (cultural supplement of La Jornada), Revista Marcapiel, and the Revista Documentos Lingüísticos y Literarios de la Universidad Austral de Chile.