Raquel Gutierrez

Raquel Gutiérrez is a poet, essayist, critic, performer, and educator born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant parents.Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Raquel Gutiérrez website. They are the author of notable works including the essay collection Brown Neon (Coffee House Press, 2022), winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and the poetry collection Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press, 2025).Poets.org, United States Artists. Career highlights include fellowships from United States Artists (2025), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2025), Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism (2021), and Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2017), as well as teaching in MFA programs.Foundation for Contemporary Arts