About the Author

SASCHA FEINSTEIN is a poet, essayist, and editor. In addition to works of poetry--his collection Misterioso won the inaugural Hayden Carruth Award--he is the author of Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature and of Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present. He is also the coeditor, with Yusef Komunyakaa, of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume, The Second Set, and the founding editor of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature. He holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in American literature. In September 2008, Feinstein was named Pennsylvania's Artist of the Year as part of the annual Governor's Awards for the Arts. He teaches at Lycoming College, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and in the MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. An accomplished saxophonist, he also hosts a weekly radio show, "Jazz Standards," on WVIA.