Jorge Enrique González Pacheco

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.

González Pacheco was born in Marianao, Havana, on September 9, 1969. His mother died when he was very young, and his relationship with his father was turbulent. González Pacheco 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 the University of California, Riverside. He has published five books, including 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.

• (1992) Poesía Ilustrada, International Edition Group, New York, NY, USA
• (2003) Antología de la Décima Cósmica de La Habana, FAH, Mexico City, Mexico
• (2003) Notaciones del Inocente, Ediciones Qneras, Moguer, Spain
• (2004) Tierra de Secreta Transparencia, Torremozas & Fundación Juan Ramon Jimenez, Madrid, Spain
• (2009) Bajo la luz de mi sangre|Under the Light of my Blood (Bilingual Edition), Trafford, Victoria BC, Canada

• 2015 HIPGivers Award by Hispanics in Philanthropy in San Francisco, California.