Brett Foster is the author of two poetry volumes, The Garbage Eater (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern UP, 2011) and Fall Run Road, which was awarded Finishing Line Press’s 2011 Open Chapbook Prize. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Boston Review, The Common, Green Mountains Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Raritan, Seattle Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and Yale Review. His existing translations of Angiolieri’s sonnets have appeared in numerous literary and translation journals and Italianist publications, and one recently was awarded the Willis Barnstone Prize for translation.