Daniel Shapiro received an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His poems, prose, and translations have appeared in American Book Review, American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Confrontation, Poetry Northwest, Words Without Borders, and Yellow Silk. He is the author of CHILD WITH A SWAN'S WINGS (Dos Madres Press, 2018), THE RED HANDKERCHIEF AND OTHER POEMS (Dos Madres Press, 2013), and the translator of Cipango, by Chilean poet Tomás Harris (2010; starred review, Library Journal). Shapiro has received translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN for Cipango and for Mexican writer Roberto Ransom's Desaparecidos, animales y artistas (Missing Persons, Animals and Artists, forthcoming, 2017). He lives in New York City, where he serves as a Distinguished Lecturer and Editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas at The City College of New York, CUNY.
