Henry Israeli is the author of New Messiahs (Four Way Books, 2002), Praying to the Black Cat (Del Sol, 2010) and God’s Breath Hovering Across the Waters (Four Way Books, 2016). He is the translator of Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions, 2002), Child of Nature (New Directions, 2010) and Haywire: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2011). He has been awarded fellowship grants from the NEA and Canada Council on the Arts. Israeli is also the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books. (2018)