Michael R. Burch is the editor of The HyperTexts, on-line at www.thehypertexts.com, where he has published the work of three Pulitzer Prize nominees and recent winners of the T. S. Eliot, Richard Wilbur and Howard Nemerov awards. He has three Pushcart nominations, and his poetry has been translated into Farsi (Iranian) and Gjuha Shqipe (Albanian) by Dr. Mahnaz Badihian, Majlinda Bashllari, and other translators. His work has appeared over 600 times in literary journals and sundry publications which include Shabestaneh, Bashgah and Mahmag (Iran), Kritya (India), Sonnetto Poesia and The Eclectic Muse (Canada), Numbat (Australia), Ancient Heart Magazine and The Word (England), Nutty Stories (South Africa), and Black Medina, Voices for Africa, The Chariton Review, Light Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Lyric, Unlikely Stories, Writer's Digest – The Year's Best Writing, ByLine and Verse (USA).