Curtis Bauer is the author of two previous poetry collections—Fence Line (BkMk Press, 2004; winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize) and the bilingual Spanish Sketchbook (Ediciones en Huida, 2012)— and two collections of poetry in translation—Talisman, from the Spanish of José de María Romero Barea (Editorial Anantes, 2012) and Eros Is More, from the Spanish of Juan Antonio González Iglesias, forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2014. His poems and translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Indiana Review, The Common and The American Poetry Review, among others. He is publisher and editor of Q Ave Press Chapbooks, the Spanish Translations Editor for From the Fishouse, and he teaches Creative Writing and Translation at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and Seville, Spain.