Gian Lombardo is Publisher-in-Residence in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College. Gian also directs Quale Press, which publishes literary works and which also supplies other publishers with editing, design, consulting, production and project management services. He is also the author of Between Islands, a collection of poems and verse translations; and four other collections of prose poetry – Standing Room, Sky Open Again, Of All the Corners to Forget and Aid & A_Bet. His translation of the first half of Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit was published in 2000 and his translation of Eugene Savitzkaya’s Rules of Solitude appeared in 2004. He lives in Western Massachusetts where he tends a small orchard and occasionally makes a passable wine.