The Day Barque: A Review of poetry, prose and the arts - Volume 4, Number 1

Judith Grace is a poet, editor, screenwriter, and playwright. For many years she was the English-language editor of the Italian art magazine FMR in Milan and translated numerous books for FMR from Italian, including Wendigen (1986). She is author of Goodbye My Fancy, about the last months of Walt Whitman’s life, published by Ulysses Books in 2003, which was produced as a play in 2004 and 2005. She also wrote The Conference of the Birds, produced in 2003 and Gaiety, Revelry, Radiance, produced in 1996. Among her many publications is the literary magazine Lyra.

Stefano Petrizzo is a poet and translator. His poems have appeared in local literary magazines. His translation work includes 13th century Italian poets and an adaptation of Iphigeneia at Aulis which was performed on stage in Northern California by Apollo Performing Arts. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A in poetry at Antioch University, Los Angeles.