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“A border / was placed upon / land and dermis”

A Q&A with author Raquel Gutiérrez on art, the apocalypse, Interstate 10, and their new poetry book, Southwest Reconstruction.

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Caroline Tracey
Dec 02, 2025
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Writer Raquel Gutiérrez. Image by Reynaldo Rivera, 2025. Courtesy of Raquel Gutiérrez.

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Raquel Gutiérrez was born and raised in Los Angeles to parents who immigrated to California from Mexico and El Salvador. For the last 10 years, they have called Tucson, Arizona, home while working as a writer, educator, and performer across the Southwest.

Their first bo…

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