Poet-translator-editor Peter Covino is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. He is also a well-published scholar and winner of the forthcoming What Sex Is Death? Dario Bellezza Selected Poems, Wisconsin Press Prize for Poetry in Translation (2025). He is also the author of a coedited essay collection on Italian American Literature and the prizewinning full-length poetry books, The Right Place to Jump and Cut Off the Ears of Winter, both from New Issues, Western Michigan University Press. His prizes include an NEA Translation Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Richmond American International University of London, and the PEN American/Osterweil Award. He is a founding editor/trustee of Barrow Street Press.