Gian Lombardo is Senior Publisher-in-Residence at Emerson College, where he teaches in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department, and at one point directed and taught at Emerson's Literary Publishing Certificate. Gian also directs Quale Press, which publishes literary works and which also supplies other publishers with editing, design, consulting, production and project management services. He is also the author of Between Islands, a collection of poems and verse translations; and eight other collections of prose poetry – Standing Room, Sky Open Again, Of All the Corners to Forget, Aid & A_Bet, Who Lets Go First, Machines We Have Built, Bricked Bats and Start of Something Beautiful. Recently, he has translated Louis Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit, and he has translated Eugene Savitzkaya’s Rules of Solitude, Michel Delville's Third Body, Archestratos's Gastrology and Maurice de Guérin's The Centaur & The Bacchante. He lives in on the Connecticut shore where he tends a small orchard and large vegetable garden, spends a fair amount of time fishing in his little 1968 Boston Whaler and occasionally makes a passable wine.