Jaime Manrique

Jaime Manrique, B.A., University of South Florida. Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. Jaime Manrique was born in Colombia. He is a bilingual writer who has published five novels, four volumes of poetry, one memoir, two volumes of poetry translations, and co-edited an anthology. His work has been translated into 12 languages. He received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in non-fiction. A former associate professor in the MFA in Writing at Columbia University, he has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, and in the MFA programs at Long Island University and Rutgers University, among other institutions. His new novel, Cervantes Street, will be published in September 2012.