Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent. He is the 2021 Horror Authors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.  ​Juan is the recipient of the Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant (2021) and the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020).

He is the author of Thirty Years Ago: Life And The First Gulf War (2023), Another Menudo Sunday (2007), O' Dark Heaven: A Response to Suzette Haden Elgin's Definition of Horror (2009), WUI: Written Under the Influence of Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. (2011), Live From La Pryor: The Poetry of Juan Manuel Perez: A Zavala Country Native Son, Volume 1 (2014), Sex, Lies, and Chupacabras (2015), Space In Pieces (2020), and Screw The Wall! And Other Brown People Poems (2020), and Planet of the Zombie Zonnets Seasons 1 & 2 (Hungry Buzzard Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of The Call Of The Chupacabra (2018).

He is the 2011-2012 San Antonio Poets Association Poet Laureate and the Lone Star State's only EL Chupacabras Poet Laureate
(For Life).

The former Gourd Dancer for the Memphis Tia Piah Big River Clan Warrior Society is also a Pushcart Prize Nominee as well as a SEATTAH Scholar (Striving For Excellence And Accountability In The Teaching Of Traditional American History) through the University Of Dallas.

Juan is a ten-year Navy Corpsman/Combat Marine Medic with experience in the 1991 Persian Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Desert Calm) with the 2nd Marines and the 1992 Hurricane Andrew Relief Marine Air Group Task Force. 

This two-time Teacher of the Year, along with his wife, Malia (a three-time Teacher of the Year), is a co-founder of The House of the Fighting Chupacabras Press.

The former migrant field worker previously from La Pryor, currently, worships his Creator, teaches public high school history, writes poetry, and chases chupacabras in the Texas Coastal Bend Area.
 

If you are interested in Mr. Perez reading at your location, please request more information at:
gotobulldog87@yahoo.com.


 Read and find out what Juan has been up to on
Facebook and his blog!!!

Presentation and workshop fees $250 per hour.
Travel fees will be discussed upon booking.​

​The House
of the Fighting
Chupacabras
Website​

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​Poetry,
Batcaves,
and
Chupacabras
Blog

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Juan can be 
found on
Poets
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Writers.

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​...also
known 
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Johnny 
Goatkiiller.

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