Calvin Bedient is professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, is a founding editor of the New California Poetry series, and co-edits Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion. He is the author of several collections of criticism, including Eight Contemporary Poets, He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and its Protagonist, and The Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion in addition to the poetry collections Candy Necklace, The Violence of the Morning, Days of Unwilling, and The Multiple. He lives in Santa Monica, California.