Douglas Basford teaches at SUNY-Buffalo, co-edits the online journal Unsplendid, and serves as prose editor for The National Poetry Review. He has received scholarships from the Summer Literary Seminars and the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and West Chester conferences. His poems, translations, and critical prose can be found in Poetry, Subtropics, Ambit (UK), Western Humanities Review, Diagram, The Hopkins Review, Smartish Pace, and The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, with more forthcoming soon in Narrative and Poetry Miscellany.