Ted Pearson was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began writing poetry in 1964 and subsequently attended Vandercook College of Music, Foothill College, and San Francisco State University. He has since published twenty-five books of poetry, including Extant Glyphs 1964-1980 (2014), An Intermittent Music 1975-2010 (2016) and his most recent, Last Date (2020). He also co-wrote The Grand Piano, a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography. He lives in Oakland, California. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Pearson for more information.