Anthony Rudolf is a poet, literary critic, editor and translator. He is the author of The Arithmetic of Memory, among other books, and founding publisher of Menard Press. Since 2000 he has had an academic career, first at London Metropolitan University, and later at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster. In 2004, he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and, in 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.