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raquel gutiérrez Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and listed in The Best Art Books of 2022 by Hyperallergic. Brown Neon was a 2023 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize for Best Lesbian Biography/Memoir, a 2023 Finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firework Award in Creative Nonfiction and Recipient of The Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. They are a 2025 recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Their first poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction, was published December 2, 2025 on Noemi Press. Gutiérrez has lived on unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui people since 2016. Follow Raquel on IG. photo credit: L.F. 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Southwest Reconstruction is a disquieting journey through the uncharted dreamspace of memory and loss, expulsion and shelter, family and recognition. Through an eclectic range of forms and echoes drawn from the relational complexities of occupying the difficult terrains of unceded land, these poems are critical improvisations of creation, closures of an imperceptible sense of displacement, and interconnecting routes mapping the vastness of a desire to belong. Divided into three sections, the text’s vocal registers act as noisy divining rods for kinship and ancestral communication; a sonic brown butch vernacular strumming notes out of sorrow and mettle. Written over the course of almost ten years in the Southern Arizona landscape, these poems function as a psychic Thomas Guide diving into the wreck of settler logics looming large in the rearview mirror of mestizaje and the mythological ruptures left in their wake.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.