WILLIS BARNSTONE, PhD, ​former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include Poets of the Bible, Mexico in My Heart, The Poems of Jesus Christ, With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, Life Watch, Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado, and The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer). He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation.