Olivier Cadiot is a French poet, dramaturge, novelist, essayist, and translator—sometimes all at once. He has published 14 works with French avant-garde press P.O.L—"works" because Cadiot blurs the boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction. Several of his works, including A MAGE IN SUMMER, have been adapted for the stage by Ludovic Lagarde. Works in English include three translations by Cole Swensen, including FUTURE, FORMER, FUGITIVE (Roof Books, 2003), as well as a collaboration with Charles Bernstein on the translation/adaptation of his early Rouge, vert & noir (Red, Green & Black, Potes & Poets Press, 1990). Cadiot himself has translated Stein, the German writer Rainald Goetz, and Shakespeare.