Stephen KesslerStephen Kessler is the author of eight previous books and chapbooks of original poetry, fourteen books of literary translation, and a collection of essays. He was a founding editor and publisher of Alcatraz, an international journal, and The Sun, a Snta Cruz newsweekly, among other periodicals and independent publishing ventures. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Lambda Literary Award for his translation of WRITTEN IN WATER: THE COLLECTED PROSE POEMS of Luis Cernuda, and is a four-time winner of the California Library Association's PR Excellence Award for The Redwood Coast Review, the quarterly literary newspaper he founded and has edited since 1999. Read More Read Less