David Oliveira is a native of Hanford in California’s San Joaquin Valley. For many years, he was publisher of Mille Grazie Press in Santa Barbara, California, and was a founding editor of Solo, an award winning national journal of poetry. He founded the still-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series, and in 1999, was named Santa Barbara’s millennium poet laureate. He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.