Willis Barnstone has more than forty books including Life Watch (BOA 2003). A Guggenheim fellow, Barnstone has four times been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and has had four Book of the Month Club selections. His books have been translated into diverse languages including French, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Korean, and Chinese. Barnstone lives in Oakland, California as full-time writer, where he gives poetry readings, often with his daughter Aliki Barnstone and son Tony Barnstone.