Michael Blumenthal’s seventh book of poems, And, will be published by BOA Editions in early 2009. Formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is the author, most recently, of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and of Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, 1999). His novel Weinstock Among the Dying won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the German, French and Hungarian, he currently holds the Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, and spends summers at his house in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary.