Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org and co-founder of the global poetry movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change, www.100tpc.org. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat. His poems have been widely published in literary reviews such as Exquisite Corpse, Mudlark, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket, OR, Prague Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Tricycle, and Zyzzyva. His books include Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press), Man/Women with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), Choose (Big Bridge Press), My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing), and the eco-spy thriller Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). Michael Rothenberg is editor of several books in the Penguin Poetry Series such as Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen, As Ever: Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger, David's Copy: Selected Poems by David Meltzer, and Way More West: New and Selected Poems by Ed Dorn and Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press). Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story is scheduled for publication in 2014 by both Shabda Press (USA) and Al Kotob Khan (Cairo, Egypt) in an Arab/English edition, translated by El Habib Louai.