Ron Paul Salutsky is the author of Romeo Bones (2013) and a Spanish translator whose work with Karen Wild Díaz appears in América Invertida: A Bilingual Anthology of Younger Uruguayan Poets (2015). Born in Somerset, Kentucky, he earned a BA in English and sociology from Western Kentucky University, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and a PhD in English from Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee.