About the Author

Roberto Harrison is the author of Counter Daemons (Litmus Press), Os (subpress) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press), all published in 2006. He was born in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1962, to Panamanian parents. A few months after his birth, he and his family moved back to Panama, where they lived until he was seven. In 1969, he and his family moved to Delaware. His first language was Spanish, and he did not begin learning English until arriving in Delaware. He has lived in various places throughout the United States including Boston, Bloomington, Indiana and San Francisco. Roberto now lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he works as a Systems Librarian. He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy, and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. His work has appeared in Talisman, Jacket, New American Writing, Mandorla, Antennae, and many other journals and is forthcoming in Junta: Avant-Garde Latino/a Writing, Chicago Review, Court Green, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century and War and Peace: The Future.