Richard Dauenhauer has lived in Alaska since 1969 and is former poet laureate of Alaska. Major works in progress include completed drafts of Erotic Epigrams, love poems translated from the Greek Anthology, and the first English translation of the Buriat-Mongol oral epic, Young Alamzhi Mergen. Among Richard and Nora Dauenhauer’s collaborative work is the bilingual series, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, published by the University of Washington Press.