Jaime Manrique

Associate Professor

Jaime Manrique received his B.A. from the University of South Florida. Born in Colombia, he is a novelist, poet, essayist, and translator. His first book of poems received his country's National Book Award. He's the author of many books in Spanish. Among his books in English are the novels Our Lives Are the Rivers (Rayo/Harper Collins, 2006), Colombian Gold, Latin Moon in Manhattan, and Twilight at the Equator; all translated into many languages. In addition to his novels, he 's published the volumes of poems My Night with Federico García Lorca; Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus; Sor Juana's Love Poems, co-translated with Joan Larkin; and the memoir Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me. His reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Salon.com, The Washington Post Book World, BOMB, The Village Voice, and many other publications. He has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts in Fiction, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.