Gerardo Pacheco Matus is a Mayan Native. Pacheco was awarded the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and has also received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, The Frost Place, and Macondo. Pacheco’s poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared and are forthcoming from the Grantmakers in the Arts, Apricity Press, Amistad Howard-University, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, The Packinghouse Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, West Branch Wired, Four Way Review, The Cortland Review, Nashville Review, Pilgrimage Magazine, Memorious Magazine, Tin House Magazine, Play on Words, Anomaly Press, Peripheries Journal, Noyo Review, Apogee Journal, among others. Pacheco is currently a tenured Professor at Cañada College.