Among David R. Slavitt’s numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are the novels The Cliff and Turkish Delights; the poetry collections Epic and Epigram: Two Elizabethan Entertainments and Crossroads; and the long poem A Gift: The Life of da Ponte. Slavitt is also a noted translator of the works of Aeschylus, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Bacchylides, Prudentius, and Avianus. He lives in Philadelphia.