Kerry Shawn Keys is an American born poet, writer, playwright and translator living in Vilnius, Lithuania. His recent publications include Black Ice (Black Spruce Press, 2020); Pienas (2013); Night Flight (2012); Sich einen Fluss verschaffen (bilingual English/German poems, tr by Ron Winkler, Hochroth Verlag, 2017); Kerry Shawn Keys, Life and Selected Works, 2021, http://greg-ory.org/kerrykeys.html. He received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1992, and in 2005 a National Endowment For The Arts Literature Fellowship.