Bill Wolak is a poet who lives in New Jersey. His works include LIPSTICK ACROPOLIS (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2021) with Carlos Ramos, The Nakedness Defense (Ekstasis Editions), THE SEEPAGE OF DREAMS (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2020), THE HOMLESSNESS OF WATER (Cross-Cultural Communications/New Feral Press, 2019), THE LAST WING (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2019), BECOME A RIVER (Cross-Cultural Communications/New Feral Press, 2018), THE LOVER'S BODY (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2014), Love Me More Than the Others: Selected Poetry of Iraj Mirza (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2014), WHATEVER NAKEDNESS ALLOWS (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2013), ARCHEOLOGY OF LIGHT (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2011), and LOVE EMERGENCIES (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2010). His poetry has appeared in over a hundred magazines. His translations have appeared in such magazines as The Sufi Journal, Basalt, Visions International, World Poetry Journal, and Atlanta Review. His critical work and interviews have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Persian Heritage Magazine, Gargoyle, Southern Humanities Review, and Prime Numbers Magazine. Mr. Wolak has been awarded several National Endowment for the Humanities scholarships and two Fulbright-Hays scholarships to study and travel in India. In 2007, he was selected to participate in a Friendship Delegation to Iran sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, America's largest and oldest interfaith peace and justice organization. During the Summer of 2010, Mr. Wolak was awarded a Field Study Opportunity in China and Japan by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. He was selected to be a featured poet at festivals in India five times: at the 2011 Kritya International Poetry Festival in Nagpur, at the 2013 Hyderabad Literary Festival, at the Tarjuma 2013: Festival of Translators in Ahmedabad, at the 2014 Hyderabad Literary Festival, and the 2017 Goa Arts and Literary Festival.