Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction; including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist; two books of stories, ELEMENTS and DENNY SMITH; and a book of poems and short prose, Reader. Glück was co-director of Small Press Traffic, Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State, and Associate Editor at Lapis Press. He prefaced Between Life and Death, a book of paintings by Frank Moore and, with artist Dean Smith, made the film Aliengnosis. He also edited the anthology BITING THE ERROR: WRITERS ON NARRATIVE with Gail Scott, Camille Roy, and Mary Berger, and he lives high on a hill in San Francisco.