Kent Leatham is a poet, translator, and educator. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad, including Best New Poets, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Fence, Able Muse, and Poetry Quarterly. He studied poetry at Emerson College and Pacific Lutheran University, taught writing at California State University Monterey Bay, and currently facilitates the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium. He is proudly pansexual.