David Weiss is author of four collections of poems, The Fourth Part of the World, Gnomon, Perfect Crime, and Per Diem, and one novel, The Mensch. He also coedited the anthology The Poet's Notebook, and his essays, translations, and poems have appeared in the Atlantic, Parnassus, the New Yorker, Iowa Review, North American Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Crazyhorse, Narrative Theory, and Ploughshares, among others. He is coeditor of Seneca Review and taught for many years at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.