Benson Bobrick earned his doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His many books have been featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, widely praised in both academic and popular journals, and published in translation in sixteen lands. In 2002, he received the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two distinguished poets, Galway Kinnell and Robert Pinsky, served on the Award Committee that year. Its other members were: Horton Foote, Hortense Calisher, Ann Beattie, and Russell Banks. Recently, his poems, crafted over many years, have been accepted by numerous publications both here and abroad. He lives in Vermont.