Serge Gavronsky was born in Paris in 1932 and fled Hitler in 1941. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D in European History from Columbia University and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College. His poetry, in French, has appeared in the magazines Les temps modernes, Tel quel, Action poetique, Banana Split, and many others. His first book of poetry in English was Sixty-six for starters (Jensen). He has completed several full length translations and is currently working on his fifth novel Charbovary.