Stephen Kessler

=Description of Work= Stephen Kessler (born 1947) is an American poet, translator, essayist, editor and novelist.

Life
He acted as publisher for several books of poetry in locally, and was founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of ["The Sun"] in the 1980s. He has also been editor and/or writer at the Santa Cruz Express, and more recently, Metro Santa Cruz"].

He is widely known as a translator of Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Luis Cernuda, Fernando Alegria and the Spanish Nobel prize winner Vicente Aleixandre. He has published several volumes of poetry.

Kessler lives between Santa Cruz and Mendocino County, where he is editor and publisher of Redwood Review.

Publications

 * Burning Daylight. Littoral Press, 2007.
 * The Mental Traveler. Greenhouse Review Press, 2010.