Clifton Ross
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- Clifton Ross is a free lance writer and videographer who has been reporting on
Latin America for over 25 years.He has edited many anthologies including: A Dream Made of Stars: A Bilingual Anthology of
Nicaraguan Poetry and Voice of Fire: Communiques and Interviews of the Zapatista National Liberation
Army. He is the translator of Quetzalcoatl by Ernesto Cardenal
and author of
When Good Dogs Have Bad Dreams: Four American Poets.
Fables for an Open Field has just been released in Spanish by La Casa Tomada of Venezuela. His forthcoming book of poems in translation, Traduciendo el Silencio, will be published later this year by Venezuela's Ministry of Culture editorial, Perro y Rana.
In 2005 Clifton represented the U.S. along with Genny Lim in Venezuelaís World Poetry Festival.
Ross currently teaches English at Berkeley City College, Berkeley, California. He can be reached at clifross@gmail.com .
