Paul Hoover is the author of eleven books of poetry. He is the editor of the anthology Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1994) and, with Maxine Chernoff, the annual literary magazine NEW AMERICAN WRITING. His collection of literary essays, Fables of Representation, was published in the Poets on Poetry series of University of Michigan Press in 2004. He's also the translator of NIGHTMARE RUNNING ON A MEADOW OF ABSOLUTE LIGHT (Shearsman Books, 2017). He teaches at San Francisco State University.