Adolfo Aranjuez is an editor, writer, speaker and dancer. He has worked across periodical, book and digital/web publishing for over fifteen years, having held editorial tenures for the anti-racist literary platform Liminal (including its award-winning collection Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory), the screen journal Metro, the LGBTQIA+ magazine Archer, the literary journal Voiceworks and the Melbourne International Film Festival. As a freelancer, he has edited and proofread for Hachette, Melbourne University Publishing, Ultimo Press, Pantera Press, Bundanon Museum and Malthouse Theatre. His essays, criticism and poetry have been published widely, including in Meanjin, Right Now, Kill Your Darlings, Screen Education, The Manila Review and Cordite. Alongside editing and writing, Adolfo has hosted and appeared on panel discussions, run mentorships and workshops, judged literary prizes, acted as industry advisor, and performed movement and spoken word. In addition to English, he speaks Spanish, Tagalog and some French. Find out more: adolfoaranjuez.com
Specialises in:
- Nonfiction (memoir, creative nonfiction, essays, arts/screen/cultural criticism, scholarly/academic)
- Political commentary/literature (LGBTQIA+, gender, immigrant/POC, mental illness)
- Poetry