He wanted to be a baseball player growing up, but found his skills were not adequate and chose to become a sports writer.

[3] He left the MININT in 2016 to found El Estornudo, an independent magazine of narrative journalism.

[4] His writing appeared in both Cuban and international outlets, including The Washington Post (WAPO) and Gatopardo.

[4] He fled to Spain in 2021 where he lives in exile[8] Jiménez Enoa won the 2023 Michael Jacobs Prize for Travel Writing, telling the story of his first year out of Cuba.

He describes this genre as being in the mold of writers such as Truman Capote and Rodolfo Walsh[5] (believed to be author of the first non-fiction novel in Spanish).

His activism caused his mother and sister to lose government jobs and his father to retire from MININT.