Jorge Guerra is an assistant professor of instruction at the University of Iowa. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Jorge received his BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at California State University-Long Beach. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Dean's Graduate Research Fellow.

His research includes the Guatemalan Coup D'état of 1954, US-Cold War involvement in Guatemala/Latin America, the disappearances of Guatemalans during the Guatemalan Civil War, and Central American immigration in the United States. He finished a collection of short stories and is currently working on a novel on the Guatemalan diaspora in California, Iowa, and Minnesota. At Iowa, he has taught courses on creative writing, grammar writing, queer Latina/o/x studies, Latina/o/x film, Latinx immigration literature, and Introduction to Latina/o/x Studies.