Dan Bellm (Translation Seminar) is a writer, editor, and translator living in San Francisco. His translations of poetry and fiction from Spanish and French include poems in TheEcco Anthology of International Poetry (HarperCollins, 2010), Sun on the Ceiling by Pierre Reverdy (American Poetry Review, 2009), The Legend of theWandering King by Laura Gallego García (Scholastic, Inc., 2005), and Angel’sKiteby Alberto Blanco (Children’s Book Press, 1994). He teaches Spanish to English Literary Translation online for New York University, and poetry tutorials for Glen Online Workshops, based in Seattle. He has published three books of poetry: Practice(Sixteen Rivers Press), winner of a 2009 California Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review; Buried Treasure(1999), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize; and OneHand on the Wheel(1999),which launched the California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press. His poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Best American Spiritual Writing, and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Writing. He co-edited the anthology, ThePlace That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed(Sixteen Rivers, 2010). He has been awarded poetry residencies at Yaddo and Dorset Colony House, and an Artist’s Fellowship in Literature from the California Arts Council. More information is available on the Web at www.danbellm.com.