Manuel Iris (born 1983) is a Mexican-born American poet, writer, and educator.
He was the Poet Laureate of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 2018 to 2020. In 2021, he was inducted into the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) of Mexico, in the discipline of poetry. He has published ten collections of poems in Spanish and English.
He began his career as a writer in the workshops of JoaquÃÂn Bestard Vázquez at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY). He has collaborated in online and print publications such as La Otra Revista, Letras Libres, Periodico de Poesia, Altazor Magazine, Post Road Magazine, and The Journal.
In 2009, he won the Merida National Poetry Prize for his book Cuaderno de los Sueños, and in 2014 he received the Rodulfo Figueroa Regional Poetry Prize awarded by the state of Chiapas, for Los disfraces del fuego. Additionally, in 2018, he won recognition in the categories of best book of poems and best translation at the International Latino Book Awards, in Los Angeles, California, with his first bilingual anthology Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence.
In 2022, his book The parting present/Lo que se irá was the winner of the ReaderâÂÂs Choice Award at the Ohioana Book Awards, and a recognition at the International Latino Book Awards 2022.
In 2025, his manuscript, Toda la tierra es un jardÃÂn de monstruos / The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters, co-translated by Iris and Kevin McHugh, was selected by the Academy of American Poets as the winner of the Ambroggio Prize.