Jeremy Paden was born in Milan, Italy (1974) and is professor of Latin American literature at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and on faculty at Spalding University's low-residency MFA. He is also a poet and a translator. He is the author of multiple chapbooks and full length collections of poems in both English and Spanish. His first book of poems, Broken Tulips, was a chapbook published by Accents Publishing in 2013. These are: ruina montium (Broadstone Books, 2016), prison recipes (Broadside Books, 2018), ruina montium (Valparaíso ediciones, 2018), world as sacred burning heart (3: A Taos Press, 2021), Un poema rápido en vez de un himno (Santa Rabia Poetry, 2024), Imágenes del mundo flotante (Alcorce Ediciones, 2024). Also, his bilingual Self-Portrait as an Iguana (Valparaíso USA, 2021) was named co-winner of the inaugural Poeta en Nueva York Prize. And, his bilingual and illustrated children's book Under the Ocelot Sun/Bajo el sol del ocelote (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2020), on the migrant caravan crisis, won a 2020 Campoy-Ada Prize awarded by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language for Children's Literature in Spanish. As a translator, he has published translations of contemporary Argentine, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, Panamanian, Peruvian, Spanish, and Uruguayan poetry. His Spanish language translation of Ada Limón's The Hurting Kind has recently been published in Spain with Valparaíso Ediciones.