John "Jack" Edward Cooper has read for Farrar, Straus & Giroux , served as research associate for the Modern Language Association, was an ESL teacher for the YMCA-ELESAIR Project, and is now Production Editor at Poets Wear Prada. His American English translation of poems by Jean-Pierre Lemesle, "Wax Women," with photos by Henry Jacobs was published November 1985 by International Art Office, Paris.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Jack is a writer, editor and translator, who has worked in trade and academic publishing, advertising -- general, financial and pharmaceutical advertising -- Continuing Medical Education (CME), and law firms. Experienced in both digital and print media, he is also fluent in French, and proficient in Italian, among other languages.