Gwen Strauss’ poems, short sto­ries and essays have appeared in numer­ous jour­nals includ­ing The New Repub­lic, Lon­don Sun­day Times, New Eng­land Review, and Keny­on Review and she has pub­lished a col­lec­tion of poet­ry, Trail of Stones. She was born and spent her ear­ly years in Haiti. Strauss lives in South­ern France, where she is the Direc­tor of the artist’s res­i­den­cy pro­gram at the Dora Maar House.