Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist, editor and novelist whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications across the United States since the late 1960s. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry and a dozen books of poetry and fiction in translation, as well as hundreds of essays, articles, columns, reviews and interviews in dozens of periodicals, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the former editor of Alcatraz, an international journal, and The Sun, a Santa Cruz weekly, among other magazines and newspapers; the current editor of the quarterly literary newspaper The Redwood Coast Review; and the author of the yet-to-be-published novel The Mental Traveler. Please click on the links above to discover or reacquaint yourself with the works of Stephen Kessler.