José Ruiz Mata (Jerez de la Frontera, 1954) is a writer and literary critic. He has been secretary of the Andalusian Association of Literary Critical Writers and director of Tierra de Nadie. He has published: The glass batter, ed. Calambur, Madrid, 1991. The man who accompanies us, ed. Calambur, Madrid, 1993. Aloe seed, ed. Calambur, Madrid, 1995. The hand that squeezes, ed. Calambur, Madrid, 1999. A thousand years of writers and books in Jerez de la Frontera (1000-1999), Publications Service of the City Council of Jerez, Jerez, 2001. Nomenclator. Guía de Jerez, Dígital, Jerez, 2002. Translated into English, German and French. Of the color of the swan. A reflection on the stories, Barataria, Jerez, 2003. The wall, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2006. Undecided April, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2008. Tartesos: another look, ed. Almuzara, Córdoba, 2009. Brief history of Jerez de la Frontera, Tierra de Nadie Editores, Jerez, 2010. Ésdelis, the guardian of fire, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2010. Transition, democracy and markets, Tierra de Nadie Editores, Jerez, 2011. The gnomon and the pendulum, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2011. Flamenco, a hibernated identity, Tierra de Nadie Editores, Jerez, 2012. The house of the Abbads, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2013. Beggars of Glory, ed. Sial-Pigmalion, Madrid, 2014. The day history changed, ed. Alhulia, Salobreña (Granada), 2015. That was not in my book History of religions, ed. Almuzara, (Córdoba), 2017. Jerez de la Frontera tourist guide, Tierra de Nadie Editores, 2017, Megalithism, ed. Almuzara (Córdoba) 2018. Al Ándalus, the story they didn't tell us ed. Almuzara (Córdoba) 2018. Manual to write a good novel ed. Almuzara (Córdoba) 2020.