Murat Nemet-Nejat is the editor and translator of EDA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POETRY (Talisman 2004). Poet, translator, essayist, a number of his books include IO'S SONG (Chax, 2019), ANIMALS OF DAWN (Talisman, 2016), THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF REPLICANTS (Talisman, 2011), Orhan Veli. I, Orhan Veli (Hanging Loose, 1989), Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds (Talisman, 2010), A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Sun and Moon Press, 1997; Green Integers, 2016), Y'ol (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). Murat Nemet-Nejat is presently working on the poem "Camels & Weasels" and the translations of selections from the Turkish poets Sami Baydar and küçük Iskender's poetry.