An NEA Fellow and a winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, Orlando Ricardo Menes is the author of seven poetry collections, including the recently published The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), Memoria (LSU Press, 2019) and Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Poetry, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, the Hudson Review, among others. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame where he is Professor of English and Poetry Editor of the Notre Dame Review. In addition, Menes is editor of Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004) and The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011).  Besides his own poems, Menes has published translations of poetry in Spanish, including My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009). 

Website: www.orlandoricardomenes.com

Publications

• The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds , University of New Mexico Press (2022)
• Memoria , Louisiana State University Press (2019)
• Heresies , University of New Mexico Press (August 15, 2015)
• Fetish: Poems , University of Nebraska Press (September 1, 2013)
• Furia , Milkweed (2005)
• Rumba atop the Stones , Peepal Tree (2001)
• My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni , Latin American Literary Review Press (2009)
• Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred , Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (2004)
• The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 , University of Notre Dame Press (2011)

Awards

• Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry(2012)
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry(2009)

Employment

• Professor at University of Notre Dame (August 2000 - )

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English (Creative Writing) from University of Illinois at Chicago (May 1998)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry