Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz (Mexicali, Mexico, 1958). Poet, essayist and novelist, lives on the Mexican border with the United States. He was one of the founders of Binational Press (1987-1996) and New Borders (2014 to date), projects that have sought to illuminate art and literature from both sides of the international line. He is the author of Historical, Detective, Fantasy and Science Fiction novels, many of which take place on the border. As an essayist, he has been concerned with studying the artistic manifestations of his region. As a poet, his main themes have been the exploration of the frontier as a home of mirages and wonders, the inquiry of the desert as a sacred zone and the recounting of his personal past as truthful mirror of his time and circumstance. Some of his books of poetry are Perceptions (1983), After the Mirage (1989), In Broad Daylight (1992), Gift of Tongues (1995), Constellations (1997), Stubble (2001), Bordertown (2006), Boundaries (2007), Civil Poems (2013), Lights on (2016), Periphery (2016) and Out of Order (2018). The San Diego University Press published Permanent Work (1993), an anthology of his poetry. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of the Language since 2011.
