Norman Dubie is the author of twenty books, most recently The Mercy Seat (2004), winner of the PEN USA Literary Award, and The Insomniac Liar of Topo (2007), both published by Copper Canyon Press. In 2002 and 2003 he published on-line a 400-page epic poem, The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake. His poems have been translated into more than thirty languages. Since 1975 he has taught at Arizona State University where he helped to found the MFA program. [bio updated 2011]