Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez
Instructor
About Mandy
Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University. Their novel in Spanish, La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016), follows three children who indirectly experience the trauma of the Pinochet military dictatorship in Chile. Their poetry has appeared in West Branch, The Malahat Review, Boulevard, BLOOM, Hobart, and other literary journals. They won the 2018 Boulevard Emerging Poets Prize and have received fellowships from the Lambda Writing Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, The Center for Book Arts, and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Originally from Vilches, Chile, they now live in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they teach creative writing at Clark University.