J. Pablo Ortiz-Hernandez holds a B.A. in Language and Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and, a M.A. in Spanish Peninsular Literature from the University of Calgary. His Master's thesis dealt with 15th century Spanish cancionero tradition. He holds a Diploma in Creative Writing by the General Society of Mexican Writers (SOGEM). He has Master’s studies in Philosophy and Logics at UAG. He has been dedicated to the teach Linguistics and literature at various institutions. He taught at the University of Arizona (summer-sessions 2004/2005): Mexican Revolution Prose and Contemporary Mexican Literature. He has been in charge of the areas of Spanish Language and Cultural Studies at the Language and Cultures Department (Universidad Panamericana). He also taught Semiotics at the School of Communication for the same institution. In 2003 he worked for the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute in California. He has published in specialized journals as Periplo, Tinta Nueva, Hipertexto, Etiópicas, Konvergencias, Lemir, among others. In 2004, he published with Paraíso Perdido Editions El sueño del dinero escarabajo y otros poemas, Ante la oscuridad (2005), De no pedirle al viento la noche, hoy en el silencio (2007). He currently teaches for the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. His doctoral dissertation studies Roberto Juarroz's late work: Vertical Fragments.