PN Review 249

About

Michael Schmidt FRSL poet scholar critic and translator was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College Oxford before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel The Colonist (1981) about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.; Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review. He is an established editor designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII.