Author’s Bio

Brian Swann was educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge (BA, Double First, English Tripos), and Princeton (PhD). He has taught at Princeton and Rutgers, and is now Professor of English at the Cooper Union. He has published in hundreds of magazines and journals, from Criticism, ELH (English Literary History), Nineteenth Century Fiction, and Novel to Agni, The American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Conjunctions, New Directions Annual, New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Quarterly Review of Literature, Raritan, the Harvard, Yale, New England, Iowa, Kenyon, Massachusetts, Paris and Partisan reviews.

He is the author of five books of poetry and five of short fiction. He also has translated 16 volumes of poetry and edited a number of volumes on Native American literature. Forthcoming in 2005 from the University of Nebraska Press is Voices From Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. He was editor of “The Smithsonian Series of Studies on Native American Literatures.” He is the author of a number of books for children, and has been the recipient of a NEA fellowship in fiction and a CAPS grant in poetry. Since 1980 he has been poetry editor of “OnEarth,” and was Director of the Bennington Writing Workshops from 1987-91. He is also a painter.