Jo Reyes

jo reyes-boitel is a poet, essayist, and playwright. jo is also a queer, mixed-Latinx parent working in community.

jo’s work includes the forthcoming the impracticality of silk: poems (Gnashing Teeth Press, 2024), the matchstick litanies (Next Page Press, 2023), Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press, 2019), and their poetry chapbook, mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021), moves from acknowledging femme-bodied prejudice toward liberation. Their recently produced hybrid opera, she wears bells, was funded and produced twice in 2020. Publications include or are forthcoming from The Ice Colony, OyeDrum, Scalawag Journal, and Switchgrass Review.

jo serves as a mentor editor with Red Salmon Arts/Resistencia Bookstore, supporting chosen poets in the development of their first book, and as an advisory editor for FlowerSong Press, supporting the independent press’ mission in lifting voices from, about, and throughout the borderlands.