Beatrix Gates is the author of Dos (Finishing Line Press), and her poetry collections include In the Open, a Lambda finalist, and Ten Minutes. She has published in Tupelo Quarterly, Bloom and The Kenyon Review with poems upcoming in The Beloit Poetry Journal and Anthem. Gates, with Electa Arenal, translated Jesús Aguado's The Poems of Vikram Babu (HOST), and they shared a Witter Bynner Translation Award. As librettist for "The Singing Bridge," Gates received support with composer Anna Dembska from the NEA, LEF and Davis Foundation for the premiere at the Stonington Opera House. Gates founded Granite Press (1976-1989), and she lives in Brooksville, Maine, while still loving NYC.