GEORGE ECONOMOU is the author of fifteen books of poetry and translations, most recently Unfinished and Uncollected: Finishing Cavafy’s Unfinished Poems & Selected Poems and Translations (2015), as well as Complete Plus, The Poems of C. P. Cavafy in English, Ananios of Kleitor, and Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden. He has published many translations from Ancient and Modern Greek and medieval European languages, including Langland’s Piers Plowman. The author of The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature, he has published numerous articles, critical reviews and essays, as well as editions of the late Paul Blackburn’s troubadour translations, Proensa, and The Poem of the Cid. A Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio, he has been named twice as a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry. In 2000, he retired, after 41 years of teaching at the University of Oklahoma, where he was department chair of English from 1983-90 and director of Creative Writing from 1990-2000, and at Long Island University, Hunter College and Columbia in New York. Economou has given readings and lectures throughout the United States and in numerous countries abroad.