About the Authors
WILLIAM O’DALY is a poet, translator, fiction writer, and editor. His translations include eight
books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — Still Another Day, The Separate
Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, The Book of Questions, The Hands
of Day, and World’s End (Copper Canyon Press). Chapbooks of his own poems include The Road to
Isla Negra (Folded Word) and The Whale in the Web (Copper Canyon Press). O’Daly was a finalist for
the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment
or the Arts Fellow, his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and
anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin, O’Daly recently completed a historical novel, This
Earthly Life, which was awarded as a Finalist in Narrative’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. He has received
national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design. To learn more, please visit
him at: WilliamODaly.com
JS GRAUSTEIN is the Editor in Chief of Folded Word and calligrapher for its three haiku
collections: Wasp Shadows by Ben Moeller-Gaa, What Was Here by Julie Warther, and A Year
Unfolding by Debbie Strange. She is also the author of How to Write an Exceptional Thesis or
Dissertation (Atlantic Publishing Group). She holds a Master of Science in Biology from Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb where she studied wetland dynamics under the tutelage of the Aquatic
Ecologist Dr. Carl N. von Ende, PhD. She also holds a Literary Publishing Certificate from Emerson
College, Boston. Her photography has appeared on the covers of numerous Folded Word titles, as well
as the publications of many non-profits. She lives and breathes amongst the trees in the picturesque
highlands of Meredith, New Hampshire. To learn more, please visit her at: Grayestone.WordPress.com
