Born in 1966, Carsten René Nielsen is the Danish author of nine books of poetry, including his most recent translated collection, House Inspections  (BOA Editions, 2011).  His selected prose poems, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2007 and translated along with House Inspections by David Keplinger. Nielsen's work has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the US, and he has been awarded the Michael Strunge Poetry Prize and several fellowships from the Danish State Foundation for the Arts. Nielsen lives in Aarhus, Denmark.