Keith Holyoak is a poet and translator of classical Chinese poetry, as well as a professor of psychology at UCLA. Born and raised in Canada, he has lived in Pacific Palisades for over twenty years. Holyoak’s work has appeared in literary magazines in the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Austria and New Zealand. Credits include The London Magazine, Envoi, Orbis, Flaming Arrow, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry NZ, Measure and Literary Imagination. In 2007 his book Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu was published by Oyster River Press. Holyoak’s own poetry has been influenced both by the great poets of the Tang dynasty and his travels in various regions of China, including Tibet. His spoken-word CDs, set to classical Chinese music, are available through Broken Electric Records. For more samples of Holyoak’s poetry, see www.keithholyoak.com.