Seth Michelson is a poet and translator whose collections of poetry include Swimming through Fire, Kaddish for My Unborn Son, and Maestro of Brutal Splendor. His translations include the books The Ghetto (Tamara Kamenszain, Argentina), roly poly (Victoria Estol, Uruguay), Poems from the Disaster (Zulema Moret, Argentina/Spain), and Dreaming in Another Land (Rati Saxena, India). He currently teaches the poetry of the Americas at Washington and Lee University.