Manuel Iris

[1][2] In 2021, he was inducted into the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) of Mexico, in the discipline of poetry.

He began his career as a writer in the workshops of Joaquín Bestard Vázquez at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY).

He has collaborated in online and print publications such as La Otra Revista, Letras Libres, Periodico de Poesia, Altazor Magazine, Post Road Magazine,[3] and The Journal.

[4] In 2009, he won the Merida National Poetry Prize for his book Cuaderno de los Sueños, and in 2014 he received the Rodulfo Figueroa Regional Poetry Prize awarded by the state of Chiapas, for Los disfraces del fuego.

Additionally, in 2018, he won recognition in the categories of best book of poems and best translation at the International Latino Book Awards, in Los Angeles, California, with his first bilingual anthology Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence.