Orlando Ricardo Menes
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Orlando Ricardo Menes (born 1958) is a Cuban-American poet, short story writer, translator, editor, and professor.
Born in Lima, Peru, to Cuban parents, Menes immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 after a leftist coup d'etat forced his family out of Peru. He has lived almost his entire life in the US, except for two years spent in Madrid, Spain, right before the death of Francisco Franco.
Menes earned a BA and a MA from the University of Florida and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.[1]
The author of seven poetry collections, apart from anthologies and numerous translations of Latin American poetry, Menes's work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Hudson Review, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Callaloo, Hotel Amerika, Boulevard, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review,[2] Indiana Review, River Styx, Epoch, Colorado Review, New Letters, Crab Orchard Review, and Green Mountains Review.[3][4]
Awards
- 2009 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts[5]
- 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize (Poetry), Fetish[6]
- 2019 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award in Fiction
