James Hoggard is a poet, translator, essayist and novelist. The author of twelve books, he has published two collections of his translations of poems by Oscar Hahn: The Art of Dying (1988) and Love Breaks (1991). His most recent books are Alone Against The Sea: Poems From Cuba By Raul Mesa (1998) and the novel Trotter Ross (1999). He is the McMurtry Distinguished Professor of English Chair at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was named co-winner of the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for literary translation in 1999 for Alone Against The Sea.