Heriberto Yépez

Heriberto Yepez is a Mexican writer, journalist and psychotherapist, and a full time professor at the Art School at the Autonomous University of Baja California, in Tijuana. He’s the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, experimental fiction, novels, theory and literary criticism in Spanish, including Tijuanologías (Umbral-UABC, 2006); A.B.U.R.T.O (Sudamericana, 2005); El órgano de la risa; El Imperio de la Neomemoria (Almadía, 2007); Contra la Tele-Visión (Tumbona, 2008) and Al otro lado (Planeta, 2008). His book have received four national literary awards, among other recognitions. His work in translation include a selection of William Blake’s fragments/aphorisms; José Vasconcelos work in English; a poetry anthology and a forthcoming lengthy prose and poetics anthology of Jerome Rothenberg, and currently works editing the first Charles Bernstein’s prose anthology in Spanish. His English work has appeared in journals such as Chain, Tripwire, Shark, and XCP. In Here is Tijuana!, Black Dog Publishing (2006), Yepez collaborated with anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo and architect Rene Peralta to explore and document the  socio-cultural forms of the city. His Babellebab: Non-Poetry on the End of Translation was published in the U.S. by Duration Press in 2003, and Wars. Threesomes. Drafts. & Mothers by Factory School in 2008. He currently lives in Tijuana, México. He defines himself as a post-Mexican writer. Some of his work can be found on his bilingual blog.