David Constantine is a novelist, poet and translator of Hoelderlin, Goethe, Faust and Brecht. He is also an editor of OxfordPoets, an imprint of Carcanet Press, and of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1944, he is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, where he now lives. He has published half a dozen volumes of poems, all with Bloodaxe Books, including Something for the Ghosts (2002) and Collected Poems (2004). His acclaimed collection of short fiction, Under the Dam, was published by Comma Press in 2005.