practices a poetic “transrealism,” merging reality and myth. Born in Valparaíso in 1947, he studied journalism at the University of Chile and worked in various media until the Pinochet coup when he was forced into exile: Argentina, Romania, and finally Sweden. There he took a degree in social anthropology at Stockholm University and worked as a culture journalist on Swedish radio until his return to Chile in 1993. His work includes English translations in two chapbooks La cabeza de la Medusa /The Medusa’s head (2012)  and Espectros y Sombras /Ghosts & Shadows (2013).

was born in Lodi, Italy, in 1954. In the 1970s and ’80s he worked in Milan as a music critic, songwriter, and editor of scientific journals. In 1987 he came to the United States and is currently Professor of Italian and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston. He has published many volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism in both Italian and English, and has also translated three novels by Graham Greene and three volumes of the writings of Bob Dylan (song lyrics, poems, and memoirs) into Italian. He has won the Montale Prize for poetry (1993), the Loria Prize for fiction (1998), and the Bertolucci Prize for literary criticism (2006).

is the author of the poetry collections, What on Earth, published by Moon Pie Press (2010); Home to Roost, Paintings and Poems of Belfast, Maine with artist Archie Barnes (2007); and The Way Women Walk (Sheltering Pines Press 2006), which was selected First Prize Winner of the 2005 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds and MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. She was recently named Portland, Maine’s 4^th Poet Laureate.

lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley, California and makes his living as an electrician. His poems have appeared or will soon appear in Assembly, Poetica, Prime Number, Squaw Valley Review, St. Anne’s Review, and Zeek.