Keith Ekiss is the Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University for 2007-2009, and recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park. His poems and translations have appeared in Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, New England Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and The Christian Science Monitor. He lives in San Francisco.  

Photo by Robin Ekiss