Lewis Warsh was born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York. He is co-founder, with Anne Waldman, of Angel Hair Magazine and Books, and co-editor, with Bernadette Mayer, of United Artists Magazine and Books. He is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, most recently INSEPARABLE: POEMS 1995-2005 (Granary Books, 2008) and A PLACE IN THE SUN (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010). He is director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.