David Jaffin was born to a Jewish family in New York and studied History, Art History and Psychology at New York University, where he was awarded a PhD. At the age of 24 he went to Europe and did the unthinkable: a mere 16 years after Auschwitz he married a German woman, became a Christian, and embarked on the study of theology. After graduating from Tuebingen University, he became a Pastor in the Evangelilcal (i.e. Lutheran) Church, and then served as a minister for 20 years in Wuerttemberg. After this he was granted freelance status in order to continue with his writing. He had already made himself a considerable reputation as a writer of sermons and religious texts, and he is now the author of dozens of prose books in German, including stories for children, as well as a large corpus of poetry in English. His most recent work includes SPRING SHADOWINGS (Shearsman Books, 2021), CORONA POEMS (Shearsman Books, 2021), TWO-TIMED (Shearsman Books, 2020), SNOW-TOUCHED IMAGININGS (Shearsman Books, 2020), and KALEIDOSCOPE (Shearsman Books, 2019).