José Alberto García Lozano
was born in 1968 en Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He is a graphic designer and graduate of the University of Guadalajara’s School of Arts. He has ventured into editorial design with Obra Negro Publishing, an independent company of which he is a founding member and through which he has published a collection of short stories, Sin Agraviar a los Ausentes (Without Offending the Absent) (2007). His stories have been published in many magazines, both locally and statewide. He was a participant in the professional novelists training with noted writer Élmer Mendoza. He independently developed a successful cultural project he calls Lotería Literaria, bringing books to the children of Ciudad Juárez. He is a member of an organization of regional writers called Mano a Mano. His artistic curiosity has carried him to also experiment in photography, participating in city competitions. His photography has been published in the nationally circulated magazine, Dia 7, and in the blog that El País called the best in the world in 2010, “Juarez under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking”. Also in 2010, he completed his visual exhibition, “Leyendas de la Literatura (Legends of Literature) with 12 images of famous writers. Mujeres (Women) is his second series of portraits.
