Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College.  He has written more than thirty books, including New and Collected Poems:  1975-2015 and The Last Station, a novel about Tolstoy’s final year.  He has written a biography of Jesus called Jesus:  The Human Face of God.  His memoir Borges and Me was recently published.” To learn more, visit this link.