Murray Silverstein's first collection, ANY OLD WOLF (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006), received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. He served as executive editor of the anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). He is the author, most recently, of MASTER OF LEAVES (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2014), and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, Nimrod, Poetry East, Zyzzyva and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.
