J. Kates, an award-winning literary translator and the co-director of Zephyr Press, has been granted three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He has had published three chapbooks of his own poems (two of which are folded into Places of Permanent Shade) and one previous collection of poems, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books). He is also the translator of a dozen books of Russian and French poetry, has edited two anthologies of translations, and collaborated with Stephen A. Sadow on a half dozen books of Latin American and Peninsular Spanish poetry in translation.
