Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based poet and art critic  whose recent books include The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014) and A Geniza (Granary Books, 2015). He has collaborated with numerous artists including Enrico Baj, Shirley Jaffe, Jane Hammond, Elena Berriolo and Trevor Winkfield. From 1997 to 2007 he was a senior editor at Art in America, where he continues to be a contributing editor. He is currently Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art. In 2002, the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2010, his blog The Silo won a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation arts writer grant. He was a co-editor of the poetry journal Vanitas and his poems have appeared in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Harpers and Best American Poetry 2015.