Juan Armando RojasJuan Armando Rojas Joo (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1969) Transborder poet, narrator and essayist, Rojas Joo has published seven books of poetry, a monograph about contemporary Mexican poetry, and has coedited two poetry anthologies denouncing feminicide nd violence in Ciudad Juarez. Besides English Rojas has been translated to Arabic, Portuguese and Italian, he has been invited to participate in national and international literary festivals, most recently to Iraq and Colombia, and during spring of 2011 he was invited as the University of Coimbra's, Portugal, resident poet. Rojas finished his BA and MA in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas in El Paso, his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, and was a postdoc Mellon Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Besides being a Professor of Spanish, Rojas serves as the current Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Ohio Wesleyan University. Read More Read Less