Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is the author or editor of over 50 books, ranging from collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, and collaborations, most recently Topsy-Turvy (2021) and Pitch of Poetry (2016), both from the University of Chicago Press. His work was the subject of The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bove, the Fall 2021 issue of boundary 2. From 1978-1981 he co-edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine with Bruce Andrews. In the 1990s, he co-founded the Poetics Program at the State University of New York – Buffalo. Bernstein co-directs of PennSound and is Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the winner of the 2019 Bollingen Prize from Yale for lifetime achievement in poetry and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in Brooklyn and Valatie, NY.