Trejo-Maya

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José D. Trejo-Maya 
626-494-9662 
Email: jdtrejomaya@gmail.com 
3834 Monterey Ave. Apt. #110 Baldwin Park, CA 91706 
Education 
Date  
Degree Earned  
Institution  
2017 
Certificate in Court Interpretation 
SCSI, Santa Fe Springs, CA  
2011  
MFA Creative Writing/Poetry  
Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA  
2004  
BA Sociology and Social Work  
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA  
2000  
AA Social and Behavioral Sciences  
Citrus College, Glendora, CA  
Employment 
Dates  
Agency  
Position  
Duties  
2018-2020 
USCIS 
Immigration 
Interpreter 
Interpret adjustment of status, citizenship and 
asylum applicants. 
2018-2020 
Monrovia Unified 
School District 
District 
Interpreter 
Interpret Special Education meetings for 
parents with IEP, Evaluations, Examinations. 
2015-2020 
 
Duarte Unified 
School District 
Bilingual 
Instructional 
Aide & IEP 
Translator/  
Interpreter 
DUSD 
 
Provide instruction assistance to teachers in 
English, Science and Math. Utilize PLATO 
computer programs to assist EL students in 
coursework.  Administer CELDT, LCAP, 
and CAHSEE exams.  Mentor high school’s 
students.  Translate and interpret at IEP 
meetings.  Assist CBI students in small 
groups. Interpret RPAC and Board Meetings. 
2015-2017 
 
East San Gabriel 
Valley Regional 
Occupational 
Program and 
Technical Center  
 YCC Mentor 
Mentor Youth Career Connect high school 
students on academic and professional goals, 
college preparation, vocational training, and 
interpersonal skills. 
2009-2013 
 
FedEx Ground/ 
Home Delivery 
Delivery 
Driver/  
Assistant 
Contractor 
Resolved package disputes, coordinated 
vehicle maintenance/inspection, audited 
delivery services. Supervised drivers, 
troubleshot mechanical and managerial 
issues as they occurred, fielded customer 
service calls, maintained daily driver logs. 
2006-2009 
Azusa Unified School 
District 
Bilingual 
Instructional 
Aide 
Provided Spanish translation and modified 
instruction for 7th grade English Learners in 
multiple subjects, assisted in mainstreaming 
students with learning and behavioral 
disabilities. 
2004-2006 
Canyon Acres 
Children’s Services 
Child Care 
Counselor 
Provided physical and behavioral conflict 
resolution and counseling in order to reunite 
families or prepare children for success in a 
foster care environment, maintained daily 
detailed dossiers, administered medication,

Poetry Publications 
Publication 
Poem Name 
Printed Date online/hardcopy 
 
 
Nimrod International 
Poetry Journal 
ChilamBalam (DT) 
Volume 55, Number 2 Spring/Summer 
2012 
Belleville Park Pages 
(UK) 
Mosaic(s) DT 
December 12, 2014 
 
Star 82 Review 
Shamanism: Still/Live (WS) 
39 
Issue 3.2  June 8 2015 Hidden Gems 
 
Visions International 
Review 
Calendar Stream (DI) 
January 5 2015 
Lost Coast Review 
System of a Down (DT) 
April 1 2015 Spring Issue 
Redactions: Poetry, 
Poetics, & Prose 
Pane/Glass Glass/Pane, 
War Paint (DT) 
April mid-summer 2015 
Altadena Poetry Review 
2015 
Images Edged in Blue 
Walls, 
Images Incised Into 
Holograms 
(DL) 
2015, February 20, 2015 
Acentos Review 
Addendum & Storm  
Black Light  
Blue Ash   
(DT) 
February 15, 2015 
Five Quarterly 
1 Lamat*/Ce Tochtli/Uno 
Conejo/One Rabbit [*Star]  
2 Muluc/OmeAtl/Dos 
Agua/Two Water 
3 Oc/Yei 
Itzcuntli/TresPerro/Three 
Dog  
(DC) 
April 2 2015 almost5qQtumblr.com 
 
Qua Quarterly 
Observatorio de 
Tulum/Luna Azul  
(DT) 
Winter 2015 
The Voices Project 
Carry it with/in (DI) 
September 8 2015 
 
Turtle Island Quarterly 
Identity: Tlaxcalteca (DI) 
April 23 2015 
Taj Mahal Review 
Mictlan n. Xibalba  (DT) 
August 22 2015

Constellations 
Ce CoatlTlaxochimaco Yei 
Calli 
(DT) 
June 17 2015 
 
 
 
Dukool(India) 
Thoughts Flare/Shard, 
Tarasco/Purepecha, 
Pyramid Shifts  
(DI) 
June 30 2015 
 
Solstice Literary 
Magazine 
Inipi (DI) 
August 8 2015 
 
In Stereo Press 
The Semblance, Lady Xoc, 
Jaguar Moon  
(DT) 
October 11, 2015 
Mandala Journal 
Dream Images (DI) 
September 9, 2015 
The Stone Bird 
Anthology of the Eagle 
Rock Library 
Inverness, new solar 
count, RepertorioPoetico, 
Carry Scars 
(DI)  
Pending…. 
Altadena Poetry Review 
2016 
Un MichoacánoComún/ 
A 
CommonerfromMichoaca
n 
(DI) 
 
April 23, 2016 
Robin Barratt 
Publishing 
Gone 
(DT) 
PDF 
The Art of Monteque 
Organization 
(DT) 
Pending 
Identidad Latina 
Antología 2016 (Spain) 
Obsidiana Yo –te corto          
Cárgalo por dentro 
(DI) 
May 12, 2016 
Hueso Loco Journal of 
Arts and Literature 
(DC) 
Issue #5 Spring/Fall 2015 
UCLA American Indian 
Studies & Research 
Journal 
DT Blue Ash, Teal Dawn, 
Black Light, Addendum & 
Storm, Tulare ca. 1806, 
Red/Feel 
11/21/2016

The Flexible Persona 
Nowhere Since DT 
Spring 2017 
AMP: Hofstra 
Universitysdigilit 
magazine 
MacuilXochitl DI 
Mid-Spring 2017 
Sacramento Poetry 
Center –Poetry Now 
Alma y Olvido DT 
Spring 2017 
Hawai’I Review 
Sun Daggers, Akashic 
Archives, Seven Mirror, La 
HierbaRetorcida DT 
Spring 2017 
Poetry Leaves 
Lightning/Blue WS 
Spring 2017 
 
Corbel Stone Press (UK) Ode Et. Al. DT 
Spring 2017 
Rabbit: a journal for 
nonfiction poetry 
(Australia) 
Novice/Scribe DT 
Spring 2017 
shufPoetry 
DT (Death Throws, 
Addendum & Storm, Pain 
Language) 
Issue #8 mid-April 2017 Video Poem 
Art & Words Poetry 
Netzahualcoyotl 
&Tlacaelel DT 
Spring 
Berkeley Poetry Review 
 
DI Tonalpohualli 
Issue 47 Spring 
Corbel Stone Press (UK) Aasuingna DT 
Spring 
Tule Review 
Death Throws, Dred Scott, 
Jade Eyes DT 
November 2017 
The Poetry Project 
Untitled, High Priest, What 
makes the iris/retina 
shine? Obsidian Caste.  DI 
June 2017 
Ghostwoods Books 
Flowers: Freeze/Frames 
(WS) 
Summer 2017 
Northridge Review 
Undeciphered, 
cuauhtliocelotl, Spirits in 
immaterial ether steel 
weight,  Lightning minds I 
DS 
Fall 2017 
WORDPEACE 
Google This, El Cerro de la 
BufaGto.,  Spiders web in 
iris glare DS 
August 2017 
“Fusionando Palabras 
2017” (Argentina) 
Kaleidescopio de Estrellas, 
Casta de Silex SI 
Noviembre 2017

DelugeLiteraryArtsJour
nal 
HeyokahThunderDreamers Pending… 
Puerto del Sol 
Hummingbirdssight… 
March 2018 
Tulane Review 
DiamondscutDiamonds 
Fall 2017 
DodgingTheRain 
Stardust in themien 
December 2017 
Vox poetica 
Winters Breeze 
 
January 2018 
Rigorous 
Underground 
Cave/Graveside, Black 
[Again], [No Names] 
Spring 2018 
 
 
 
The Write Launch 
Akashic Archives, 
Quest/Vision, Ode Et. Al. 
March 2018 
Weasel Press 
El Diablo Anda Suelto en 
Sinaloa 
July 2018 
Empty Mirror 
In Xochitl In Cuicatl [Essay] 
June 2018 
Voxpoetica 
"ChicomeAcatlIzcalliOmeT
ochtli/Seven Reed 
Resurgence Two Rabbit” 
June 2018 
Scarlet Leaf Review 
Indio Tarasco/At 12:43 
noon sun/I got 
you/Xochimilca ca. 1519 
 
July 2018 
Yzur 
La MuerteteTira 
Octubre 2018 
SAND Journal 
[yeiozomatlihueytozoztlin
ahuitecpatl] 
Issue 18 October 2018 
Sunspot Literary 
Journal 
Snows Drift 
September 2019 
Convocatoria Poesía 
Libertaria 2019 que 
abrió La Garcita Azul 
(Venezuela) 
Lenguaje de Dolor 
28 de Septiembre 2019  
PoetsChoice 
www.poetschoice.in 
Poets.docx 
October 8th 2019 
Azahares Literary 
Magazine - 
Submission Form: 
Azahares 2020 
Can you read this 
January 2nd 2020 
Art Hole: 5 –Featured 
Artist 
Transparencies in Time 
October 15th 2020

Awards  
Nomination 
Journal/Poem 
Date  
Pushcart Prize 
2015 
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics & 
Prose 
“Pane/Glass Glass/Pane 
November 24, 2015 
TercerPremio 
El Centro Canario Estudios 
Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el 
Certamen Internacional de 
Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 
2016 
Noviembre 8, 2016 
New Rivers Press Many Voices Press Finalist 2018 
May 7, 2019 
2020 Jack Straw 
Writers Series 
Recordings, Podcast, and 
Interviews 
Seattle, Washington (Spring, Summer and 
Fall, etc.) 
 
Exhibitions 
 
Exhibition 
Institution/Location 
Date  
Transparencies in 
Time: 
Cuahpohualli 
Amador County Arts 
Council/Jackson, CA 
September/October 2020 
Transparencies in 
Time: 
Cuahpohualli 
Museum of Dead Words/New 
York, NY 
October 26th 2020 
Small Works 
2020: 
- Submission #2: 
Oxomoco 
Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs 
New York 
November 7, 2020 - 
December 4, 2020 
 
Foundwork 
https://foundwork.art/artists/edit/jos
edtrejo-maya/works  
September/October 2020 
Shoreline Latinx 
Online VIsual Art 
Exhibition 
Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts 
Council 
November 2020  
 
The Meadowlark  
YWCA Missoula  
Cade Gallery 
Anne Arundel 
Community 
College 
Transparent thoughts [Wreck - 
oning: National Online Juried 
Exhibit] 
March 2021 
Vividness  
UI Kokomo 
Downtown Art 
Gallery  
Oxomoco  
https://www.iuk.edu/downtown-
gallery/index.html 
March 18th to April 12th 2021

An Exhibition on 
Things Called Art: 
Hilliard Gallery 
(Kansas City, MO) 
Oxomoco 
April 2th to May 22th 2021 
City of Santa 
Monica Cultural 
Affairs 
Provisional Exhibition: Art of 
Recovery 
Fall/Winter 2021 
Soundpedro 
Audio Exhibition  
June 5th 2021 
Port Angeles Fine 
Art Center 
Endurance of Change: 
June 2021 to May 2022 
Hispanic 
Heritage Month 
Gallery 
Exhibition 
Centro Cultural Mexicano: 
September 13th to October 17th 2021 
Sculpted Spaces, 
Wild Lives: The 
Third Street 
Gallery Moscow, 
ID 
Words lacerate & Transparent 
thoughts 
October 12-13 2021 to January 7th 2022 
 
Grants 
 
Center for 
Cultural 
Innovation 
Grant/California Relief Fund for 
Artists and Cultural Practitioners 
September 29th 2020 
 
 
Scholarships 
 
Hudson Valley 
Writers Center 
Poetry Workshop: The Poem 
Under the Poem  
October 24th 2021 
 
 
Professional Reference 
 
Naelh Othman, Duarte Unified School District, Director of Student Services 
1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, CA 91010 
Email: Nothman@duarteusd.org 
Cell:  626-599-5010 
 
Laurent Lanuquiette, Duarte Unified School District, High School Math Teacher 
Mt. Olive Innovation & Technology High School 1400 Mt. Olive, Duarte, CA 91010 
Email: llanuquiette@duarteusd.org 
Cell: 626 905 8110

Thelma Reyna, Golden Foothills Press, Chief Editor/Publisher  
1443 E. Washington Blvd. #232, Pasadena CA. 91104 
Email: drthelly1@aol.com 
Cell: 626 375 5442 
 
Douglas Kearney, adjunct faculty, California Institute of the Arts 
 24700 McBeanParkway Valencia, CA 91355  
Email: douglas@douglaskearney.com 
Cell: 626 841 0406 
 
Gilbert R. Cadena, Cal Poly Pomona, Ethnic & Women’s Studies Professor 
3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona CA. 91768 
Email: grcadena@cpp.edu 
Cell: 909 869 3595

Brief Biographical Sketch 
 
He is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the 
lowlands from a time and place that no longer exists. Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, 
where he spent his childhood in the small rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom he 
immigrated in 1988. His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. 
Young Bear, James Welch and Juan Rulfo. Published in various journals/sites in the UK, US, 
Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. Pushcart Prize nominee in 2015; 
awarded Tercer Premio from El Centro Canario Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el 
Certamen Internacional de Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 2016; New Rivers Press Many 
Voices Project Finalist 2018, 2020 Jack Straw Writers Fellow; Exhibitions in CA, NY, MN, IN, 
MT, WA, ID amongst others. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River 
Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy..

Artist Statement 
 
I am a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner 
from the lowlands (i.e. Mexico) from a time and place that no longer exists. At present my poetry 
has been reified as it has been published in the UK, US, India, Spain, Australia, Argentina, 
Germany and Venezuela. I have been exhibited in different venues with a work that’s titled: 
Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli embedded in ethnopoetic language poetry:. I seek to 
expand on this work into a comprehensive exhibit in a gallery in 3D (i.e. three simultaneous 
exhibitions that expand into multiple levels of perception and/or dimensions). I was born in 
Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where I spent my childhood in the small neighboring rural pueblo 
of Tarimoró and wherefrom my family immigrated in 1988. My inspiration(s) include 
Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, and James Welch. 
 
 
 
 I have a work in progress of a short-story series were I interpolate the sunstone calendar 
(i.e. the primary source of the Cauhpohualli Computo del tiempo azteca y su correlacion actual 
Anahuacayotl de Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla); to bring to life a micro-fiction project titled San 
Miguel de Tarimoro ca. 1546. It’s a micro-fiction work of short stories that delve into the 
immaterial aspects of time. It will be digitized into video with simultaneous audio in video-book 
view narration. Namely, it’s a bridge from poetry to narrative storytelling. The work is a catalog 
of the 365 days in the Tonalpohualli or count of days in hologram. My work is rooted in 
Mesoamerican lore and a pre-Columbian notion of time that’s extant in the poetics and as such 
it’s the foundation and bedrock. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule 
River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy…At, present the submissions here remitted 
are merely a glimpse of a wider panorama that would be made into a broader mosaic(s) of 
installation/sculptural art to be made for indoor or outdoor exhibition.