Seth Michelson has published nineteen books of original poetry and poetry in translation, as well as the bilingual-Spanish poetry anthology Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, and his work has been translated into multiple languages, including German, Hindi, Italian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. He teaches the poetry of the hemispheric Americas at Washington and Lee University, where he founded and directs the Center for Poetic Research and is the chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.