Simon Pettet was born in England in 1953 and moved to New York City in 1977, where he still lives. He is the author of Lyrical Poetry, and four other books from Talisman: SELECTED POEMS (1995), MORE WINNOWED FRAGMENTS (2005), HEARTH (2008), and AS A BEE (2014). He collaborated on two books with the photographer Rudy Burckhardt, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT EVERYTHING (1987) and Talking Pictures (1994), as well as editing The Art Writings of James Schuyler (1998) and Other Flowers, a posthumous collection of Schuyler's writing (2010).