Thomas Rain Crowe is the editor of a groundbreaking anthology of Celtic language poets entitled Writing The Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) and author of several collections of poetry, including The Laugharne Poems, written at the Dylan Thomas Boat House, and published in Wales (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1997). He is the translator of Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz (Shambhala, 2001), and lives in the mountains of western NC in Tuckaseegee.