Frederick Glaysher is an epic poet, rhapsode, poetcritic, and author or editor of ten books. He has been a Fulbright-Hays and NEA scholar on China and India. He studied writing under a private tutorial, at the University of Michigan, with the poet Robert Hayden and edited Hayden's poetry and prose.He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Michigan, the latter in English, and for a decade taught at several colleges and universities.He lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan-in Japan, where he taught at Gunma University in Maebashi; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation, site of one of the largest internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi; ultimately returning to his suburban hometown of Rochester, Michigan. He has given over sixty epic poetry readings and performances, several in theatres, in the USA, Canada, and Scotland.