A. Willis, in his youth, wanted to be an ARTIST. But marriage to another artist, Elli, and fate, had other plans for that brilliant young man. Still, today his beautiful ink drawings of literary figures, as well as animals, appear in his books of poems and translations such as his ABC of Translation (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry).
Author: Sholeh Wolpé
Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and playwright. She is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, several plays, and an oratorio. Her most recent book, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse (Univ. of Arkansas Press, March 2022) is hailed by National Book Award finalist Ilya Kaminsky as a book “that created its own genre—a thrill of lyric combined with the narrative spell.” Sholeh has lived in Iran, Trinidad, and the United Kingdom and is currently a Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles and Barcelona.