Edward Morin is from Chicago and has graduate degrees in English from The University of Chicago and Loyola University. His poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Collections of his poetry include The Dust of Our City, Labor Day at Walden Pond, and Housing for Wrens. His co-translations of Arabic and Chinese poems have appeared in Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Banipal, and Asymptote. He edited and co-translated The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry since the Cultural Revolution (U. of Hawaii Press, 1990). He co-hosts the Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series of readings and workshops in Ann Arbor.