José D. Trejo-Maya was born in Celaya, Guanajuato where they spent their childhood in the small neighboring rural pueblo of Tarimoró, and where their family immigrated from in 1988. José is 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.

José’s poetry has been reified as it has been published in the UK, US, India, Spain, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. They have exhibited in different venues with a work that is titled: Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli, embedded in ethnopoetic language poetry. José seeks to expand on this work. Their inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear and James Welch.