Brian Swann was educated at Queens' 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 Literarv 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. He is the author of five books of poetry and five of short. He has also translated sixteen volumes of poetry and edited a number of volumes on Native American literature. He was editor of "The Smithsonian Series of Studies on Native American Literatures," and is now series editor of the "University of Nebraska Press Native Literatures of the Americas." He is the author of a number of books for children, including A Basket Full of White Eggs, Touching the Distance: Native American Riddle-Poems, and The House With No Door: African Riddle-Poems. He 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" (formerly "The Amicus Journal”), and was Director of the Bennington Writing Workshops from 1987-91. He is also a painter, represented by Pierogi Gallery, NYC.