Stephen Kessler

Stephen Kessler's poems, translations, essays, criticism, and journalism have appeared over the last fifty years in hundreds of literary magazines, newspapers, anthologies and books. His translations of Luis Cernuda have received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Center USA Translation Award. His version of Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cort�zar received a Northern California Book...See more

Stephen Kessler's poems, translations, essays, criticism, and journalism have appeared over the last fifty years in hundreds of literary magazines, newspapers, anthologies and books. His translations of Luis Cernuda have received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Center USA Translation Award. His version of Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cort�zar received a Northern California Book Award. He has edited numerous magazines and newspapers, most notably Alcatraz, an international journal; The Sun, a Santa Cruz newsweekly; and The Redwood Coast Review, four-time winner of the California Library Association's PR Excellence Award. He is also the editor and principal translator of The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges, and the author of a novel, The Mental Traveler. For more about Stephen Kessler, visit ... See less