Manuel Iris

Manuel Iris was born in Mexico in 1983. He is a poet, and has been writer in residence of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library and Library Foundation (2023), writer in residence of Thomas More University (2023-2024), Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio (2018-2020), and member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico (SNCA, 2022-2024). He won the of the “Merida” National Poetry Award (Mexico, 2009) for his book Notebook of Dreams, and the Rodulfo Figueroa Regional Poetry Award for his book The Disguises of Fire (Mexico, 2014). This same book was a finalist for the Ciudad de la Lira International Poetry Award in Ecuador. His first bilingual anthology of poems, Traducir el silencio/Translating Silence, was published in New York in 2018 and won two different awards at the International Latino Book Awards in Los Angeles, California. In 2022, his book The Parting Present/Lo que se irá won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Ohioana Book Awards. In 2023, Manuel Iris published his first anthology in Europe, Descifrar lo invisible/Rozszyfrować niewidzialne (Madrid-Crakow), with Polish translations by Marta Eloy Cichocka. In that same year, the Autonomous University of Chiapas, in Mexico, published his book Translator of Silence: Critical Approaches to the Literary Works of Manuel Iris, which collects essays, reviews, and interviews with twenty-three different authors about Iris’ poetry. He currently lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.