Arthur Szeis is the author of nine books of poetry, including Compass Rose (2014), The Ginkgo Light (2009), Quipu (2005), The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (2001), and The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, all from Copper Canyon Press. He is also the editor of Chinese Writers on Writing (Trinity U Press, 2010). He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he served, from 2006-2008 as the city’s first poet laureate.