David Lee GarrisonDavid Lee Garrison was born in Bremerton, Washington, and educated at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins Universities. After visiting appointments at Indiana University and the University of Kansas, he began teaching Spanish and Portuguese in 1979 at Wright tate University (Dayton, Ohio), where he now chairs the Department of Modern Languages. He has taught creative writing workshops at Wright State and also at Antioch University, Sinclair Community College, and the University of Dayton. His work� poetry, criticism, fiction, reviews, and translations�has appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, Poem, and The Nation, as well as in various anthologies. He has published two chapbooks, Blue Oboe (Wyndham Hall Press) and Inside the Sound of Rain (Vincent Brothers), and three volumes of translation, most recently Certain Chance, by Spanish poet Pedro Salinas (Bucknell University Press, 2000). Learning to cook for himself as a young single man led to his special interest in food and food poems. He lives in Dayton, Ohio, with his wife, Suzanne Kelly-Garrison, an attorney and fiction writer. Read More Read Less