New Writing Series Winter 2016

John Gibler and Lorena Gómez Mostajo – Wednesday, January 13, 2016 – Visual Arts Presentation Lab (SME 149) at 4:30 pm

John Gibler lives in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, 2009), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (City Lights, 2011),  20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera (Sur+, 2012), Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero (Tusquets, 2014) and Una historia oral de la infamia (Penguin RandomHouse and Sur+, 2015).

Lorena Gómez Mostajo (Mexico City) is an editor, writer, and photographer. She has collaborated with the photography journal Luna Córnea as an essayist and editor and has written for newspapers and magazines such as Reforma, La Tempestad, Picnic and Letras Libres. Lorena is the editor, along with Mara Fortes, of Chris Marker Inmemoria, a volume of essays about the French filmmaker published by the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival. She is also in the process of editing two other books with Ambulante: the first is a chronicle of the Ambulante Más Allá video training project and the other is a Spanish translation of Amos Vogel’s Film As a Subversive Art. Lorena's artistic work has been included in several collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and Germany. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recently, she founded Taller Salón, an independent publishing house that works with artists and writers to produce different kinds of printed matter. Taller Salón is also a printing house that helps artists in the San Diego-Tijuana community create a variety of projects at low cost.