John Taylor, born in 1952, is an American writer, critic, and translator who has lived in France since 1977. His most recent books of poetry and short prose are REMEMBRANCE OF WATER / TWENTY-FIVE TREES (Bitter Oleander Press), IF NIGHT IS FALLING (Bitter Oleander Press), THE DARK BRIGHTNESS (Xenos Books), and Grassy Stairways (The MadHat Press). As a translator, he has won grants and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sonia Raiziss Charitable Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2015, his translation of José-Flore Tappy's poetry (Sheds, Bitter Oleander Press) was a finalist for the National Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association. For the Bitter Oleander Press, he has also translated generous selections of the poetry of Jacques Dupin (Of Flies and Monkeys, 2011) and Pierre Voélin (TO EACH UNFOLDING LEAF, 2017). His other recent translations include books by Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre-Albert Jourdan, Pierre Chappuis, Catherine Colomb, Georges Perros, Alfredo de Palchi, and Lorenzo Calogero. Caroline François-Rubino is a French artist who was born in 1960 and currently lives in southwestern France. Along with her philosophically resonant personal work, which is often oriented toward our innermost experiences of landscape, she has published four livres d'artistes in collaboration with John Taylor: Hublots (Éditions L'OEil ébloui), Boire à la source (Éditions Voix d'encre), Vent (Éditions Æncrages & Co.), and Grassy Stairways (The MadHat Press). She was also one of the four artists who contributed drawings to Taylor's THE DARK BRIGHTNESS (Xenos Books). Ever ready to enter into an artistic dialogue with literary texts, she has worked on joint projects with many French and European poets. Her pictorial language is full of ever-changing lights, shades and matter, but also of empty spaces, silence, and never-ending, constantly evolving roaming.