Jonathan Harrington lives in an 18th century hacienda that he restored himself in rural Yucatan, Mexico where he writes and translates poetry from Spanish and Mayan. He is a weekly featured reader at Café Poesía and Café Péndula in Mérida. He is on the permanent faculty of US Poets in Mexico and a reader for the University of Arkansas Press' Miller Williams Poetry Prize. He has read poetry thoughout the world and has been invited to the International Poetry Festival in Havana, Cuba, Semana Negra in Gijón Spain and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, his poems have appeared in Poetry East, The Texas Review, Main Street Rag, Green River Review, Kentucky Poetry Review, South Florida Poetry Review, English Journal, Epitaph, Slant, Black Bear Review, and many other publications. He has published two chapbooks: Handcuffed to the Jukebox and Yesterday, A Long Time Ago. His translations from the Spanish and Mayan have appeared in World Literature Today, Visions International, The Dirty Goat, International Review of Poetry and are forthcoming in book form from Swann Sythe Press. In addition to poetry, he has edited an anthology of short stories: New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers, authored a collection of essays, Tropical Son: Essays on the Nature of Florida, and has published five novels, The Death of Cousin Rose, The Second Sorrowful Mystery, A Great Day for Dying, Saint Valentine's Diamond and Death on the Southwest Chief.