Joe Ross is the author of over fifteen books of poetry including most recently, History and its Making - The Making of History, (Bi-lingual French/English, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2017),1000 Folds, Chax Press, Wordlick, Green Integer Press (2011) and Strata, Dusie Press (2008). He has also published Fractured // Connections . . ., bilingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde Press, Wordlick, and EQUATIONS = equals, Green Integer Press, 2004. Former Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 1991-1997, and co-founder of both the In Your Ear reading series in Washington, D.C. and the Beyond the Page reading series in San Diego, CA, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry in 1997 and is the three-time winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award in 2003, 2005, and 2006. He presently resides in Paris.