Jack Marshall has published twelve books, of which Sesame (Coffee House Press, 1993), was awarded the PEN Center West Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Two other books, Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise (Jazz Pr., 1984), and Gorgeous Chaos: New & Selected Poems, 1965-2001 (Coffee House Press, 2002), each won a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. A collection of new poems, The Steel Veil, will be published by Coffee House Press in Fall, 2008.