East Bay native Lee Foust relocated to San Francisco to study creative writing; abandoning both, he traveled to Europe, a novel idea in his head, and fell in love with a fugitive Finn and Rome. He studied in Florence and NYC, obtained a Ph.D., wed a well-known rock critic, and co-edited Resister magazine. Washing again upon Tuscan shores, Lee re-married and fathered a child. Nowadays he rents in Florence with partner Debra Zeller, teaches, and recites his own works, with and without banging a drum, to anyone who’ll listen. Foust’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various literary journals.