is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in May 2009) as well as Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, Archipelago, and The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese. His poems have been translated into Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. A professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts, he is the recipient of two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, as well as grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA).