Virgil Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962 and since 1974 has lived in the United States. He is the author of four collections of poetry, with Palm Crows forthcoming this year from the University of Arizona Press. His essays, stories, poems and translations have appeard both nationally and internationally in Parnassus, Poetry Wales, Cimarron, Toronto Review, Malahat Review, Salmagundi and elsewhere. He is a professor of creative writing at Florida State University. (2001)