Andrew Kaufman grew up near NYC, graduated from Oberlin College, earned his MFA in poetry writing from Brooklyn College, and his MA and Ph. D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as The Atlanta Review, Beloit PoetryJournal, College English, A Gathering of the Tribes, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Rattapallax, and Skidrow Penthouse. His Cinnamon Bay Sonnets won the Center for Book Arts chapbook competition in 1996. Earth’s Ends, his most recent book of poems, appeared in 2005 after winning the Pearl Poetry Award. He is currently completing a volume of poems, set in West Africa, called Upcountry. The travel reflected here and in Earth’s Ends was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in New York City.