Paul Hoover is the author of the poetry volumes Desolation: Souvenir (2012), Sonnet 56 (2009), Edge and Fold (2006) and Poems in Spanish (2005), which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1994), a second edition of which appeared in 2013, and co-editor of the literary magazine, New American Writing. He teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.