José A. Villar-Portela

José A. Villar-Portela, born in Havana, Cuba, is a poet, translator and editor based out of Miami, FL. He is the Editor/Translator of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Assistant Editor and Head of Spanish-Language Acquisitions of Jai-Alai Books and the Programming Director of Reading Queer. He is also the editor of Jai-Alai magazine produced by University of Wynwood Press. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in Hispanic Literature at Florida International University.