Chris Glomski was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and has mostly lived in or around Chicago. He is the author of TRANSPARENCIES LIFTED FROM NOON (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005), THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OTHER POEMS (The Cultural Society, 2011), and LIT UP (The Cultural Society, 2017). He lived in Pisa, Italy, from 1991 to 1992, and translates Italian poetry as an intermittent pursuit.