Igor Webb was born in Slovakia and grew up in the Inwood neighborhood of New York City. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), and The Hong Kong Review, among others. Among his publications are Rereading the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and the memoir Against Capitulation (London: Quartet Books, 1984). His story “Reza Says,” originally published in The Hudson Review, was selected as a Distinguished Story for Best American Short Stories, 2012. Christopher Smart’s Cat, a cross- or multi-genre work—part memoir, part literary talk, part fiction—was published in 2018 by Dos Madres Press. Buster Brown’s America , a collection of nonfiction, including the series “This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year,” appeared in the “Odd Volumes” series of The Fortnightly Review in Spring 2022. Igor Webb has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Leverhulme Fellow, and a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He received bis B.A. from Tufts University (1963), and his Ph.D. from Stanford (1971). He is Professor of English at Adelphi University.