Jose Manuel Prieto

Jose Manuel Prieto was born in Cuba and spent twelve years training and working as an engineer in the former Soviet Union before beginning a career as a writer and translator. He has translated the works of Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova into Spanish and is the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire and Rex. Prieto has taught in Mexico City, at Cornell and Princeton, and currently teaches at Seton Hall University.