Jonathan Galassi, born in Seattle, Washington, is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He began his publishing career at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, moved to Random House in New York, and finally, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1985. Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and is now President and Publisher. Galassi is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. His honors as a poet include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, and his activities include having been poetry editor for The Paris Review for ten years, and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets. He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, The Nation and on the Poetry Foundation website. Galassi graduated from Harvard College in 1971 and was a Marshall Scholar at Christ’s College.