Pat Nolan was born in a bilingual household in Montreal in 1943. However, he has spent most of his adult life in exile from his mother tongue with the exception of exercising his ear on the syntax of his language of origin for the work of French poets such as Max Jacob, Philippe Soupault, and Jean Follain. His translations from the French have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including Big Sky, Contemporary Literature In Translation, Otoliths, The Random House Book of 20^th Century French Poetry, and Poems for the Millenium, Vol. I. His earlier translations of Robert Hébert’s poetry have appeared in Parole, blog of The New Black Bart Poetry Society, of which he is the founder and editor. He lives at the opposite end of the North American continent from his place of his birth: in Northern California along the rustic Russian River.