Daniel Halpern is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Something Shining. For twenty-­five years, he edited the international literary magazine Antaeus, which he cofounded in Tangier with Paul Bowles. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the first Editor’s Award, given by Poets & Writers, and the 2015 Maxwell E. Perkins Award. From 1975 to 1995 he taught in the graduate writing program at Columbia University, which he chaired for many years. And in 1978, with James Michener, he founded the National Poetry Series, which oversees the publication of five books of poetry each year. Halpern was founder, president, and publisher of Ecco, and is now an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf.