Henry Israeli, publisher, is the author of New Messiahs (Four Way Books, 2002), and Praying to the Black Cat, winner of the 2009 Del Sol Poetry Prize. He is also editor and co-translator of Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions, 2002), Child of Nature (New Directions, 2010) and Haywire: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2011). In 2001, he received a grant for poetry translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. He presently teaches in the English Department at Drexel University.