Biography
Zack Rogow is the author, editor or translator of eighteen books and plays, including six collections of poetry, three anthologies, four volumes of translation, and a children's book. His sixth book of poems, The Number Before Infinity, was published by Scarlet Tanager Books in 2008. Twice he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. He is the author of two plays, including La Vie en Noir: The Art and Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor, which was performed in San Francisco by the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. He is the editor of a recent anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press: and editor of two volumes of TWO LINES: World Writing in Translation, distributed by University of Washington Press. His translations of George Sand, Colette, and André Breton have won numerous awards, including the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award and the Northern California Book Award in Translation. His children's book, Oranges, was a Junior Library Guild Book-of-the-Month. He currently also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and has taught in the writing programs at the University of San Francisco and at San Francisco State University.
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