Co-founder of Grid Books / Off the Grid Press, Bert Stern is the author of WHAT I GOT FOR A DOLLAR (Grid Books, 2018), SILK AND THE RAGPICKER'S GRANDSON (Red Dust, 1998) , the critical book Wallace Stevens: Art of Uncertainty, and Winter in China, a monograph on American expatriate Robert Winter. He is Milligan Professor of English Emeritus at Wabash College, and has also taught at the University of Thessaloniki as Fulbright Professor of English and at Peking University. Stern served as chief editor for Hilton Publishing, and for fifteen years taught for Changing Lives through Literature, a program designed for men and women on probation.