Nicholas BensonNicholas Benson was born in West Germany in 1966 and grew up in Yugoslavia, Turkey, and the USSR. He holds an MA in Italian (Middlebury, 1991), a PhD in Italian (New York University, 1999), and an MFA in Writing (Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2009). e has published translations, poems, and essays in many journals. His translations include Attilio Bertolucci's Winter Journey (Parlor Press, 2005); Aldo Palazzeschi's The Arsonist (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2013), for which he was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship; in collaboration with Elena Coda, Scipio Slataper's My Karst and My City and Other Essays (Lorenzo Da Ponte Library/University of Toronto Press, 2020), which was awarded the John Florio Prize by the Society of Translators (UK); and Maria Grazia Calandrone, (°) - seed and other poems, edited by Beppe Cavatorta. Read More Read Less