Juan Armando Rojas, transborder poet, has published eight poetry collections including Como luz de río / Like River Light (artpoyetica, 2019) and De caña de maíz y miel: 12 haikus de Ohio/On Cornstalks and Honey: 12 Ohio Haiku (Full/Crescent, 2018), translated to English by Jennifer Rathbun. Rojas was the “Poet in Residence” at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2010) and has participated in international poetry festivals, most recently in Iraq, Egypt, and Colombia.