Paul B. Roth lives in upstate New York with the sculptor Georgina Heksch Roth. A graduate of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont from which he also earned his Masters Degree in Contemporary French Poetry, he has been the editor and publisher of The Bitter Oleander Press since 1976, publishing contemporary poetry and fiction in translation, along with essays and interviews of substance about poetry and the creative act in both full length books and as a Spring and Autumn issued magazine.