Michael K. Schuessler is a Professor of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Cuajimalpa Campus in Mexico City, where he teaches courses dedicated to Latin American art and literature, pre-Columbian Mexico, colonial Mexico, etc. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he specialized in the literature and arts of colonial Latin America. He is the author of many articles devoted to the interpretation of Latin American literature and culture as well as several books: Pita Amor: la undécima musa (Ed. Penguin Random House, 2018); Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Portrait (University of Arizona Press, 2007), Foundational Arts: Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain (University of Arizona Press, 2013). In 2006, the University of Texas Press published his edition of Alma Reed’s autobiography, entitled Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico. In 2010 he published a collaborative volume on gay culture in Mexico -the first of its kind- entitled México se escribe con jota: una historia de la cultura gay recently published in an updated edition by Penguin Random House, 2018). With Amparo Gómez Tepexicuapan he published a scholarly edition of Alma Reed’s and Felipe Carrillo Puerto’s correspondence entitled “Tuyo hasta que me muera”: epistolario de Alma Reed (Pixan Halal) y Felipe Carrillo Puerto (H´pil Zultuché): marzo a diciembre de 1923 with Mexico’s Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Col. Memorias Mexicanas). He is also the author of a book of biographical fiction inspired by the lives of five foreigners in Mexico published by Ed. Planeta in late 2014 and entitled Perdidos en la traducción: cinco viajeros ilustres en el México del siglo XX. In 2021, in collaboration with Eduardo Sepúlveda Amor, he edited an anthology of the poetry of Guadalupe Amor published by Penguin Random House with his introductory study.