Mira Rosenthal, a past fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University’s Stegner Fellowship, publishes poetry and translations regularly in such journals as Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Poetry, The Harvard Review, The New England Review, A Public Space, and The Oxford American. Her first book of poems, The Local World, received the Wick Poetry Prize. Her honors include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. She teaches in Cal Poly’s creative writing program.