Paul Legault is the author of five books of poetry—Lunch Poems 2, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Other Poems (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Madeleine Poems. He also co-edited The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. He was born in Canada.