Jerrold Shiroma is originally from South San Diego. A longtime advocate for translation and small presses, he has been the sole editor of duration press and durationpress.com since 1997. Over the years, duration press has released over two dozen print-chapbooks, and well over 100 freely accessible PDFs of new and archival works. In 2016, he launched Seedings, a somewhat-annual journal dedicated to poetry’s nomadic impulse. He currently lives in California’s Central Valley with his wife and two daughters. He works as an archivist and librarian, and occasionally writes, draws, and sometimes guest lectures on Southern California graffiti and Surrealism.