Jaime Manrique is a poet, novelist, essayist and translator who has been hailed by The Washington Post Book World as "the most accomplished gay Latino writer of his generation, a picaro prone to shock his readers by pushing the moral standards of his time." He was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1949. His first volume of poetry received his country’s Euardo Cote Lamus National Poetry Award in 1975. In English he has published the volume of poems My Night with Frederico Garcia Lorca (1995 and a new edition in 1997); and the novels Colombian Gold, (Clarkson N. Potter,1983), Latin Moon in Manhattan (St. Martin’s Press,1992), and Twilight at the Equator (Faber and Faber, 1997). He has just completed Eminent Maricones, a book about Federico Garcia Lorca, Reinaldo Arenas, and Manuel Puig. Mr. Manrique teaches at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Social Research. He lives in New York City.