Arlo Haskell

Arlo Haskell is a historian, poet, literary organizer, and publisher. He is the author of The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) (November, 2017), which received the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction. He is also the author of the poetry collections Fool Proof (2003) and Joker (2009). As an editor, Haskell has worked on critically acclaimed editions of poetry and literature in translation, including The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley (translated by Stuart Krimko and named a BOMB magazine “Editor’s Choice” for 2011) and collections by Harry Mathews including The New Tourism (selected as a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” in 2010) and Collected Poems: 1946–2016 (2020). He lives with his family in Key West, where he is executive director of the Key West Literary Seminar.