Rosmarie Waldrop is the author of more than three dozen books of poetry, fiction and criticism, and has translated the work of Emmanuel Hocquard, Edmond Jabes and Friederike Mayrocker, among others. Her books include Reluctant Gravities (1999), A Key into the Language of America (1994), and The Reproduction of Profiles (1987), among many others. With her husband, poet Keith Waldrop, she is the publisher of Burning Deck Press.