About Juana Peñate Montejo

Juana Peñate Montejo is a Ch’ol poet, writer, translator and educator from Emiliano Zapata, Tumbalá, Chiapas, Mexico. She has authored several books of poetry in Ch’ol with self-translations in Spanish including Mi nombre ya no es silencio(Coneculta 2002), Ipusik’al Matye’lum/Corazón de la Selva (Pluralia 2013) and most recently Isoñil Ja’al/Danza de la Lluvia, which won the 2020 Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de América and will be published this year by the University of Guadalajara. Peñate Montejo’s new poetry collection, Tsa’ Kñajle…Jump’ej K’iñ, Jump’ej K’iñ…/Y Soñé...Un día, Un día..., will be co-published by Oralibrura and Lakñichimal this year.