Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer, whose most recent books are Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (2017) and Rumi: Unseen Poems (trans. Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz, 2019). His previous ten books include: Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & The 70s and the 80s; Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; as well as Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; three novels–Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity, Zombie00; a collection of stories, Jailbait and other Stories, and Finding the Boyfriend Within and Dating the Greek Gods.