Jaime Manrique

Jaime Manrique is a Colombian-American novelist, poet, essayist and translator, born in Barranquilla on 16 June 1949. His first volume of poetry won Colombia's National Poetry Award. His novels include Latin Moon in Manhattan, Twilight at the Equator and Our Lives Are the Rivers, a novel of Manuela Sáenz.

Eminent Maricones is a memoir and critical study of Reinaldo Arenas, Manuel Puig and Federico García Lorca alongside his own life as a gay Latino writer. He has taught at Mount Holyoke, New York University and The New School, and is a professor in the MFA programme at Columbia University.