Antonio Rodríguez Jiménez

Antonio Rodríguez Jiménez: Currently a high school teacher in Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), born in 1978, is an Hispanic Filology graduate of the Salamanca University, and master in Literary Editions of the Salamanca University and Santillana Group. Rodríguez Jiménez is a poet, literary critic and playwright. He has received important poetry prizes in Spain, like “Antonio Machado”, “Antonio Gala” or “Arcipreste de Hita”. He is the author the poetry books, El camino de vuelta (2012), Insomnio (2013), Las hojas imprevistas (2014), Los signos del derrumbe (2014) and Estado líquido (2017).  His poems, translated into English by Jorge Rodríguez-Miralles, have appeared in Cimarron Review, Osiris, Asheville Poetry Review and Connecticut River Review. 

Jorge Rodríguez-Miralles is currently a high school teacher and an adjunct professor of writing and literature at Miami-Dade College and St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida.  Jorge Rodríguez-Miralles is also an MFA in Creative Writing graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Jorge is a poet, literary critic, translator, plus enthusiastic advocate for peace-making via ecological and spiritual renewal. His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in print and online in the following periodicals: Metropolis, TheThePoetry, Big Bridge, Cimarron Review, Bombay Gin, Danse Macabre, The Battersea Review, Osiris Poetry, Ragazine, Connecticut River Review, El Coloquio de los Perros and La Galla Ciencia. Rodríguez-Miralles also published his own first collection of poems, Everything/Nothing, in the spring of 2014.