Dr. Stephen Frech has earned degrees from Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Cincinnati. He has published four volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State University Press 1995), If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness (White Pine Press Poetry Prize 2001), The Dark Villages of Childhood (MWC Press 2009), and Into Night’s Tent (River Glass Books 2020). He has a fourth volume titled A Palace of Strangers Is No City, a sustained narrative of prose poetry/flash fiction, published by Cervena Barva Press in 2011. His translation from the Dutch of Menno Wigman’s book of poems Zwart als kaviaar/Black as Caviar was published in 2012.
He is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, publisher of limited edition, letterpress poetry broadsides. At Millikin University, he teaches letterpress printing and helps to operate two presses: Blue Satellite Press and Sting & Honey Press.