José Clemente Carreño Medina

José Clemente Carreño Medina comes from Mexico. He has a BA in Spanish as a second language from La Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca México. After finishing his bachelor’s degree, he studied Latin American Literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he received a degree in Master of Arts in Spanish. Currently, he is working on his dissertation to complete the PhD in Latin American Literature, also at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has been teaching Spanish as a second language as well as literature courses since 2001. He has one poetry book in revision for publication in Mexico called Monólogos de Alcoba. He has attended conferences in Spanish Literature including “The 2011 French and Spanish Graduate Student Symposium at Saint Louis University” and “The 53rd Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association St. Louis Missouri 2011”. Poetry is his passion and a window through which he sees reality and reinvents it through language.