Jaime Manrique was born in Colombia.
He is the author the memoir Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me. He has written several novels, including Our Lives Are the Rivers, Twilight at the Equator, and Latin Moon in Manhattan which have been translated into many languages. He is also the author of the poetry collections My Night with Federico García Lorca; Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus; and Sor Juana’s Love Poems, which he co-translated with Joan Larkin.
His reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon.com, Washington Post Book World, BOMB, and many other publications.
Among his honors are grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
He worked as an associate professor in the M.F.A. program in writing at Columbia University and currently teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University.
Manrique is chair of the PEN Membership Committee.
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