BILL WOLAK

is a poet who lives in the United States and teaches Creative Writing at William Paterson University. He has just published his tenth collection of poetry entitled The Lover’s Body. With Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, he has translated Your Lover’s Beloved: 51 Ghazals of Hafez and Love Me More Than The Others: The Selected Poems of Iraj Mirza;both of which were published by Cross-Cultural Communications. His translations have appeared in such magazines as The Sufi Journal, Basalt, Visions International, World Poetry Journal, and Atlanta Review. His critical work and interviews have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Persian Heritage Magazine, Gargoyle, Southern Humanities Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Ascent, Florida English, and Prime Numbers Magazine. He was selected to be a featured poet at festivals in India four times: at the 2011 Kritya International Poetry Festival in Nagpur, at the 2013 Hyderabad Literary Festival, at the Tarjuma 2013: Festival of Translators in Ahmedabad, and most recently at the 2014 Hyderabad  Literary Festival.