Kevin Craft is the editor of Poetry Northwest. His books include Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books, 2005), and five volumes of the anthology Mare Nostrum, an annual collection of Italian translation and Mediterranean-inspired writing. His poems, review and essays have appeared widely in such places as Poetry, AGNI, Verse, Ninth Letter, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, The Stranger, and West Branch. A Bread Loaf Scholar in 1996, he has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, t Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, and Artist Trust. He lives in Seattle, and directs both the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College and the University of Washington's Creative Writing in Rome Program.