Isaac GoldembergIsaac Goldemberg was born in Chepen, Peru, in 1945 and has lived in New York since 1964. His work has been translated into several languages and published in numerous journals and anthologies in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. He's the uthor of four novels, ten books of poetry, and three plays. In 2001 his novel The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner was selected by the Yiddish Book Center of the United States as one of the 100 most important Jewish books of the last 150 years. His most recent publcations are Philosophy and Other Fables (short stories, 2016), Dialoghi con me e con i miei altri / Dialogos conmigo y mis otros (poesia, 2015), Chepen, madre de arena (narrativa y poesia, 2015), Remember the Scorpion (novela, 2015), La vida breve (poesea, 2012). Presently, he's Distinguished Professor at Hostos Community College of The City University of New York, where he's director of the Latin American Writers Institute and editor of Hostos Review. Read More Read Less