Juan Carlos Chirinos García (Valera, May 3, 1967) is a Venezuelan writer and creative writing teacher.

[1][2] Juan Carlos Chirinos García was born in Valera in 1967.

He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown and in 1985 moved to Caracas to study at the School of Arts of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Two years later, he began studying literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, where he graduated in 1992.

He worked at the Universidad Metropolitana, the Fundación de Etnomusicologia y Folklore, the Cinemateca Nacional and the Alejandro Otero Museum.