Fasil Yitbarek is an Ethiopian author, poet, translator and teacher. He is currently a professor of English at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. Fasil is the author of an English novel, The Texture of Dreams (2005), and has also published a collection of Amharic poems called Embilta (2007). He has translated Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground. His new book is a biography of the Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Soaring on Winged Verse: The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin. Fasil’s many years of close friendship with Tsegaye and other family members have provided him opportunity to begin this project and draw ample inspiration from the poet’s life to see this memoir through to its completion.