Richard J. Fein has published eleven books of poetry including LOSING IT (Box Turtle Press, 2021). His book Kafka's Ear has won the Maurice English Award. He has also published three books of his translations of Yiddish poetry: Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn; WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT (Host Publications, 2009); The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever. And he has also published three books of prose: Robert Lowell, a critical study; The Dance of Leah, a memoir of Yiddish; Yiddish Genesis, personal essays. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He taught at Hunter College and the University of Puerto Rico before teaching many years at SUNY, New Paltz. He also spent a year on a Fulbright in India, teaching American literature.