Daniel Zomparelli is editor-in-chief of Poetry Is Dead magazine and recipient of the 2011 Pandora's Collective Publishers of Magazines Award. The fourth issue of Poetry Is Dead, "Vancouver: Influence," was a key feature at the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference in 2011. Zomparelli also helped to start the Megaphone magazine Community Creative Writing Program, which offers free creative writing classes for low-income and homeless people. He writes for and works with several magazines across Vancouver, including Geist, Megaphone, Sad Mag, Granville Online and, formerly, Adbusters. Davie Street Translations is Zomparelli's first book of poems.