The author of books of poetry, fiction, essays and plays, Samuel Hazo is the Director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he also is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His latest books are The Holy Surprise of Right Now (Poetry), The Rest is Prose (Essays), Stills (Fiction), Feather (Play); As They Sail (Poetry) and Spying for God (Essays). His translations include Denis de Rougemont’s The Growl of Deeper Waters, Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love, and Adonis’ The Pages of Day and Night. He has been a National Book Award finalist and was chosen the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Governor Robert Casey in 1993, a position he still holds.