David Schloss was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Columbia University, the University of Southern California Cinema School, Brooklyn College (BA), and the Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA). He taught at the University of Cincinnati and Miami University (Ohio) from which he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in December, 2014. He has published five full-length poetry collections: The Beloved (Ashland Poetry Press, 1973), Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001), Group Portrait from Hell (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009), REPORTS FROM BABYLON AND BEYOND (Dos Madres Press), 2015), THE HEARTBEAT AS AN ANCIENT INSTRUMENT (Dos Madres Press, 2020; plus three chapbooks, Legends (The Windmill Press, 1976), Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2004), Behind the Eyes (Dos Madres Press 2005), as well as scores of poems in literary journals and anthologies over the years.