Jeremy Dae Paden is an Affrilachian poet and a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Transylvania University. On his mother's side he is of Puerto Rican descent and he was raised in Central America and the Caribbean. His poems have appeared in The Adirondack Review, Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Cortland Review, Pluck! and Rattle, among other journals and anthologies.