Orlando Ricardo Menes

Orlando Ricardo Menes 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.