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Daniele Pantano
Daniele Pantano is a poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. His individual poems, essays, and reviews, as well as his translations from the German by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Georg Trakl, have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including Absinthe: New European Writing; The Adirondack Review, The Baltimore Review, The Book of Hopes and Dreams (Bluechrome 2006); Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Italian Americana, The Mailer Review, Poetry International, 32 Poems Magazine, Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press 2005); and Style. Pantano is also the editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art and the Co-Editor of Härter, a prominent German literary magazine. Pantano currently divides his time between Switzerland and the United States, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of South Florida and, as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence, at Florida Southern College; however, as the newly appointed Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, England, Pantano will return permanently to Europe in 2008.