Robert Fernandez is the author of We Are Pharaoh and Pink Reef, both from Canarium Books. Poems from his third book of poetry, Crowns, have appeared in Ostrich Review and are forthcoming in Court Green and A Public Space. With the poet Mary Hickman, he edits Black Rainbow Editions. He is also at work on translations of Mallarmé, some of which are forthcoming in Lana Turner.