Anselm Hollo was the author of more than thirty books, not including his literary translations. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into Finnish, French, German, Swedish, and Hungarian. He received a NEA Fellowship, two grants from The Fund for Poetry, the Government of Finland’s Distinguished Foreign Translator’s Award, The San Francisco Poetry Center’s Book Award, and The Academy of American Poets’ Translation Prize. He taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He died in 2013.