Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They specialize in poetry, experimental fiction, and Latinx literature. They are the author of the forthcoming poetry collections O/CCULT (winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize) and Out, Little Spear! (winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize and forthcoming from Host Publications), the poetry chapbook A/An (End of the Line Press), and the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas). They hold an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and their writing has appeared in the 2021 Best New Poets Anthology, Colorado Review, West Branch, AGNI, Georgia Review, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM and other literary journals. Winner of the 2018 Boulevard Emerging Poets Prize, they have been awarded fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Writing Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, TAKT Residency in Berlin, Center for Book Arts, Frost Place Conference on Poetry, the Studios at MASS MoCA, CantoMundo, and MacDowell. They founded and run the Anderson House Reading Series, which hosts readings by BIPOC, queer, and trans writers. They are currently working on Ushabti, a novella about a drunken beggar in rural Chile who believes he is King Tut.
Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez’s courses include: Writing the Borderlands; Latine Mythology: Speaking to Ancestors; Hybrid Texts: Writing Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Text & Image (co-taught with Professor Jan Johnson); Creative Writing: Poetry; Advanced Poetry, and Documentary Poetics.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Books
- O/CCULT (Omnidawn, 2028)
- Out, Little Spear! (Host Publications, 2027)
- A/An (End of the Line Press, 2024)
- La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016)
Select Work in Literary Journals
- “As a Jewl of Gold in a Swine’s Snout.” Georgia Review, 2026.
- “Diseases of Astonishment,” At What Cost. Issue: Obsession, 2025.
- “Five Textile Poems.” TILT, 2024.
- “Examination of Candy.” Tupelo Quarterly. Spring, 2024.
- “Metrical Charm: For an Abortion.” AGNI, Issue 97. Spring, 2023.
- “Metrical Charm: For a Swarm of Bees.” West Branch, Issue 101, Winter 2023.
- “El Trauco.” Elipsis: poesía y literatura desde el sur, 2022. (en español)
- “El Trauco.” DIAGRAM. Vol. 22, Iss. 2. Spring, 2022. (in English)
- “Examination of Tituba” & “Examination of George Jacobs, Sr.” Colorado Review, Summer 2022.
- “Examination of Martha Carrier, Queen of Hell.” Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics. Vol. 38, Iss. 3, Fall 2021.
- “Examination: Sarah Good” and “Sarah Good’s Confession.” Quarterly West. Iss. 102: Domestication/Feralization, Spring 2021.
- “Glamour Purse” and “River Boys.” Diode. Vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2020.
- “Carnecitas,” “The Bunker in Berlin-Mitte,” and “Noise Prophets.” Boulevard. Iss. 100, Fall 2018.
- “Metrical Charm 7: For a Shallow Wound.” West Branch. Iss. 87, Spring/Summer 2018.
Reviews and Interviews:
- “Confession of A/An Rampent Hag:” Review of A/An by Crystal Odelle
- “Some shape in yr eye: A Conversation with Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez about A/An” — Curated by Tiffany Troy
- “The Salem Witch Trials, Poetry, and the Violent Language of Law” (Challenge. Change. podcast)
