Dan Bellm lives in San Francisco. His third book of poems, Practice, came out from San Francisco’s Sixteen Rivers Press in March 2008. His first book, One Hand on the Wheel, launched the California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press, and his second, Buried Treasure, won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Best American Spiritual Writing, and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.

Dan is also a widely published translator of poetry and fiction from Spanish. His translation of The Legend of the Wandering King, a novel by Laura Gallego García (Scholastic), made the American Library Association’s Notable Books for Children list and the School Library Journal’s Outstanding International Books list for 2006.