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Ph.D., UC San Diego (2019) Omar Pimienta (Jorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on Transborder Cultural Production and Creative Writing. His research explores Transcalifornian creative production as a form of cultural citizenship, focusing on the marginality of a transborder existence and the mobile spatial ontology it entails. Pimienta has authored five poetry collections: Sediment/o (Ediciones Liliputienses, Cáceres, Spain, 2024), Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., 2018), Escribo desde aquí (Pre-Textos, Málaga, Spain, 2010), La Libertad: Ciudad de paso (CECUT, Mexico, 2006), and Primera Persona: Ella (Anortecer, Mexico, 2004). Additionally, he published a short story collection, Té (RIL Editores, Barcelona-Santiago, Spain-Chile, 2019). As a visual artist, Pimienta received the Art Matters Grant in 2017. His work has been featured at prominent exhibitions including the MDE11 Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Medellín (2011), the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l'Art Contemporain de Casablanca, Morocco, the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time LA/LA (2017-18), the 5th Transborder Biennial in El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, and the 2023 Mexicali Biennial. From 2019 to 2022, he was a member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in the area of poetry. Border and Migration Studies in the Americas Education
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