Nationality United States | Notable works Poetry, Film | |
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Jorge Enrique González Pacheco is a Cuban Poet, Writer and Cultural Entrepreneur. He has a B.A in Hispanic & Latin American Literature at the University of Havana, Cuba and M.A in Hispanic Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
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Biography
González Pacheco was born in Marianao, Havana on September 9 of 1969. His mother died when he was very young, and the relationship with his father was turbulent. Jorge Enrique moved to the United States in 2003, and since 2006 he has been living in Seattle. He published his first poem in Alaluz, a literary magazine of University of California in Riverside. He has published five books, included Under the light of my blood. In Cuba, the poet received the Delia Carrera Poetry Prize, a national award, in 1996. In 1990 integrated the group of young poets that participated at the revolution of Cuban literature that distanced itself from political themes and created a clearer and more universal lyric. As a freedom defender in an interview he criticized the situation of the civil liberties on his country. One of his well-known poems is dedicated to Havana. González Pacheco is the Founder & CEO of the Seattle Latino Film Festival (SLFF), a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization. He has read his poetry in United States and many other countries including Spain.