Frederick Turner’s science fiction epic poems led to his being a consultant for NASA’s long-range futures group, through which he met Carl Sagan and other space scientists. He received Hungary’s highest literary honor for his translations of Hungarian poetry with the distinguished scholar and Holocaust survivor Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, won Poetry’s Levinson Prize, and has often been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. Born in England, raised in Africa by his anthropologist parents Victor and Edie Turner, and educated at Oxford University, he is also known as a Shakespearean scholar, a leading theorist of environmentalism, an authority on the philosophy of Time, and the poet laureate of traditional Karate. He is the author of about 40 books, ranging from literary monographs through cultural criticism and science commentary to poetry and translations. He has taught at UC Santa Barbara and Kenyon College, edited the Kenyon Review, and is presently Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Recent publications include Light Within the Shade: 800 Years of Hungarian Poetry, translated and edited by Frederick Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Syracuse University Press, 2014; Apocalypse: An Epic Poem, Baen Books (ebook) and Ilium Press (hardback and paperback), 2016; More Light: Selected Poems, 2004-2016, Mundus Artium Press, 2017; and The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe, translated and edited by Frederick Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Deep Vellum Press, 2019.