Como luz de r?o / Like River Light - Paperback

Rojas, Juan Armando: - Juan Armando Rojas Joo (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1969) Transborder poet, narrator and essayist, Rojas Joo has published seven books of poetry, a monograph about contemporary Mexican poetry, and has coedited two poetry anthologies denouncing feminicide and violence in Ciudad Juarez. Besides English Rojas has been translated to Arabic, Portuguese and Italian, he has been invited to participate in national and international literary festivals, most recently to Iraq and Colombia, and during spring of 2011 he was invited as the University of Coimbra's, Portugal, resident poet. Rojas finished his BA and MA in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas in El Paso, his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, and was a postdoc Mellon Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Besides being a Professor of Spanish, Rojas serves as the current Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Ohio Wesleyan University.Rathbun, Jennifer: - Jennifer Rathbun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1973) As a translator, Jennifer Rathbun has published ten complete poetry books by five different Hispanic authors including Mexican poets Alberto Blanco, Minerva Margarita Villarreal, and Juan Armando Roxas Joo. Additionally, she has published poetic translations in international journals like The Dirty Goat, Terre Incognita, Prism International, and International Poetry Review. Rathbun's original poetry has appeared in journals including the Hispanic Culture Review, Latino Book Review Magazine, Border Senses, La Revista Luna Zeta, and Papeles de la Mancuspia. Rathbun is co-editor of the anthologies Blood of Mine: Poetry of Border Violence, Gender and Identity in Ciudad Juárez (2013) and Canto a una ciudad en el desierto (2004). Jennifer Rathbun received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and she is a Professor of Spanish at Ashland University where she is also the Associate Editor of Ashland Poetry Press.