Jorge Pérez was born in Guadalajara in 1983. He studied literature and Spanish at the Universidad de Guadalajara, as well as translation at the Jalisco chapter of the Mexican Translators' Organization. He worked for six years as an editor and copyeditor for the Guadalajara presses Página 6 and Arlequín, where he published translations of U.S. authors including Joe Meno and Mark Twain. He has collaborated as a reporter with the publications Público/Milenio and El Informador, and he has been published in journals including Replicante and Magis.