Patrick Barron grew up in the Pacific Northwest, lived in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and Italy for a number of years, and is now based in Boston, where he teaches at the University of Massachusetts. He as been awarded grants and prizes from the NEH, the NEA, the Fulbright Program, and the Academy of American Poets. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications such as Ditch, Boneshaker, Basalt, Words Without Boundaries, Poetry East, The Argotist, Softblow, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Forum Italicum, Two Lines, Paideuma, Italica, and Modernism/modernity. His books include Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale; Towards the River's Mouth, by Gianni Celati; Haiku for a Season, Haiku per una stagione, by Andrea Zanzotto; The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto; and Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology.
