Harold J. Recinos is professor of church and society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. A cultural anthropologist, he specializes in work and ethnographic literature dealing with undocumented Central American migrants and the Salvadoran diaspora. He has published numerous articles, chapters in collections, and written major works in Latino Theology, including 18 collections of poetry. Recently, two new collections of poetry were released, The Looking Glass: Far and Near and The Place across the River (under review for a Pulitzer Prize). Recinos's poetry has been featured in Anglican Theological Review, Weavings, Sojourners, Anabaptist Witness, The Arts, Perspective, Afro-Hispanic Review, Hispanic Theological Initiative, En Foco, among others. Since the early 1980s, Recinos has worked with and defended the civil and human rights of Salvadoran refugees in the States and in marginal communities in El Salvador.
