Roger Greenwald grew up in New York City, where he attended City College and the St. Marks-in-the-Bowery Poetry Project. In 1970, having settled in Toronto, he founded the literary annual WRIT. In 1977 he was the winner, for poetry, of the Norma Epstein National Competition in Canada. Connecting Flight, his first book of poems, was published in 1993. In 1994 he won the CBC Radio / Saturday Night Literary Competition in the poetry category (for an unpublished work). His poems have appeared in numerous journals (The World, Panjandrum, Poetry East, Pequod, The Spirit That Moves Us, etc.), in several anthologies, and in a festschrift in honor of Rolf Jacobsen. He has received major translation prizes in Canada and the U.S., including the F. R. Scott, the Richard Wilbur, the Inger Sjöberg, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes. In 1987 he was awarded a Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S. He is a member of PEN.