Jesús Montoya (Tovar, Venezuela, 1993) is a poet and essayist. He earned his degree in Letters from the Universidad de Los Andes. He has published the verse collections Las noches de mis años [The nights of my years] (2016) and Hay un sitio detrás de los incendios [There is a place behind the fires] (2017), which won the first Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Francisco Ruiz Udiel. He is currently part of the editorial team of the journal Poesía at the Universidad de Carabobo and is editor of the journal Insilio. He is currently completing a doctorate in Literature in Brazil.