Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They specialize in creative writing (hybrid texts, poetry, fiction) and Latinx literature. They are the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and the poetry chapbook A/An (End of the Line Press). 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, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, diode, Interim, 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, and MacDowell. They founded and run the Clark Poets and Writers Reading Series, which hosts readings by writers of color and queer/trans writers. They are currently working on O/ccult, a poetry manuscript which uses 17th century court records of the Salem Witch Trials as a sounding board to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.
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
- A/An. Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. End of the Line Press, 2024.
- La Pava. Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016.
Work in Literary Journals
- “Five Textile Poems.” TILT, 2024.
- “El Trauco.” Elipsis: poesía y literatura desde el sur, 2022. (in Spanish)
- “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.
- “Second Examination of Tituba.” Shrapnel Magazine, 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)