Mito Reyes is a writer, editor, and researcher who holds a PhD in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de San Luis. He is a member of the Mixe Collective (Colmix), an inter-community collaboration network dedicated to research and training in Mixe knowledge. He is an editor at Editorial Nanoky, where he specializes in the design and publication of materials in the Ayöök language, as well as research relevant to the Mixe people. He is a cofounder of the Nemuk Collective, which is dedicated to cultural self-management in Totontepec, which is located within the Mexican state of Oaxaca. He coordinates and edits community and academic publications and writes essays, short stories, and research articles, as well as works in the crónica mode of literary journalism.
His Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship project is based in Totontepec Villa de Morelos, Oaxaca, México. He will lead a science fiction writing exercise that creates space for participants to explore the relationship between humans, the natural world, and the cosmos according to the tenets of Ayöök thought. The stories created through this exercise will be collected in a book or digital archive, published in the Ayöök language.