Alexander Lowell is a novelist and freelance journalist concentrating on food, wine and the arts. He has published poetry and short fiction in the US, UK and Cyprus. He has written for newspapers and magazines in Chicago, San Francisco, Western Massachusetts, Boston, Cyprus and Virginia. In 1980 he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Criticism (dance). He has worked as a construction laborer, cook, bartender, taxi driver, publicist, dance company manager, proofreader, paralegal and English teacher. He was educated in private high schools and colleges in Virginia and has lived for extended periods of time in Mexico, England, France, Greece, Cyprus and Kuwait. Many of the poems in this book were written in or inspired by the people, land and culture of Cyprus. He has published two mysteries, Roll Away the Stone and its sequel, Blind Faith.