David Baratier received his Masters from Temple in 1996. His Masters thesis was titled The Unrecorded Family. Baratier’s poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, from Carnegie Mellon University Press, Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace from Partisan Press, and Red White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America from University of Iowa Press. His collections include A Run of Letters (Poetry New York, 1998), The Fall Of Because (Pudding House, 1999), Estrella’s Prophecies I/The Fortune Begins (Runaway Spoon Press, 2002), Estrella’s Prophecies II/Dawn of the Living Fortune (Anabasis/Extant, 2003), and After Celan (Furniture Press, 2006). An epistolary and prose novel In It What’s in It was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2001. He is the founder and editor of Pavement Saw Press. He is also the editor of the Collected Poems of  Simon Perchik, which he published with Pavement Saw Press. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.