ANITA BARROWS holds master’s degrees in English and Italian literature and a doctoral degree in psychology. Since 1972, she has translated poetry, plays, fiction, and nonfiction. Seven volumes of her poetry have been published, including Exile and We Are the Hunger (Aldrich Press) and Sequence Beginning with Tara (Quelquefois Press). She has won grants for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Centrum Foundation, and her poems have been published in such journals as The Nation, Tikkun, and Prairie Schooner. She is a professor of psychology at The Wright Institute, Berkeley, and maintains a private clinical practice. Barrows is a mother and grandmother and lives with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and birds.
JOANNA MACY, PHD, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. She belongs to the faculty of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her thirteen books include A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time; Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy; Coming Back to Life: A Guide to the Work That Reconnects; and Mutual Causality in Buddhist Teachings and General Systems Theory. A respected voice in global movements for environmental and social justice, she is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects. A grandmother, she lives in Berkeley, California, near her three children and their families.
Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy have translated and edited the following books:
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God. New York: Riverhead, 1996 (hardcover and paperback). Revised paperback with the German, 2005.
In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. New York: Riverhead, 2005 (hardcover and paperback; with the German). Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point, 2016 (with the German).
A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.