Mario Susko, a witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, came, in a sense, back to the US at the end of 1993. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Sarajevo and Nassau Com. College, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 1997 and 2006 Nassau Review Poetry Award, the 1998 Premio Internazionale di Poesia e Letteratura "Nuove Lettere" (Naples, Italy), and the 2000 Tin Ujevic Award for "Versus Exsul" for the best book of poems published in Croatia in 1999. His poem "Conversion," published and nominated by "Dream Catcher," was short-listed for the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize. Also, "The Paumanok Review," "Nassau Review," and "Branches Quarterly" nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize, as did "The Interpreter's House" (UK) and "Dream Catcher" (UK) for the 2006 Forward Prize in the best single poem category. His recent work includes his selected poems 1982-2002 "Reading Life and Death" (Zagreb: Meandar, 2003) and the anthology of modern Jewish-American short stories "A Declaration of Being" (Zagreb: Meandar, 2006) which he co-edited with Myron Schwartzman and translated into Croatian. Susko is the author of 25 books of poems, his fourth book in English "Eternity on Hold" having been released by Turtle Point Press, New York, in 2005. His new book "Life Revisited: New and Selected Poems" was put out in Allahabad, India, and the Croatian version of "Eternity on Hold" was released November 2006 by Meandarmedia, Zagreb. His new poetry collection, "Closing Time," will be released this spring by Harbor Mountain Press.