Richard SchwarzenbergerRichard Schwarzenberger is a native Kansan and a resident of San Francisco where he makes his living as a gardener and a swim instructor for people afraid in water. He is also a longtime columnist for The Monthly, and the author of several boks, including IN FARO'S GARDEN: A TOUR AND SOME DETOURS (Ithuriel's Spear, 2006), as well as the upcoming novel, City of Disappearances. He is co-translator along with Grace Martin Smith of Listening to Istanbul, poems of Orhan Veli Kanik. Read More Read Less