Kiadó: Raven Press New York - Michael Salcman is an internationally known neurosurgeon, poet and art critic. Born in Pilsen Czechoslovakia in 1946, the son of Holocaust survivors, he came to the United States in 1949 and graduated from the Six-Year Combined Program in Liberal Arts and Medical Education at Boston University in 1969. He was a Fellow in Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health from 1970 to 1972 and trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University in New York (1972-1976). He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and served as chairman of the department of neurosurgery from 1984 through 1991. His early medical career was profiled by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp in "Not Quite A Miracle" (Doubleday, 1983). He is the author of almost 200 scientific and medical articles as well as six textbooks, the most recent of which is the two-volume 2nd edition of "Kempe's Operative Neurosurgery" (Springer, 2004). His books have been translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese and Chinese. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Boston University's Medical School and of Columbia University's Neurological Institute. He is a former president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and lectures widely on art and the brain and on the brain and creativity. His lectures can been seen on-line at The Knowledge Network of the New York Times. He writes the cover articles on art and culture for the journal "Neurosurgery" and many of his art reviews appear on his Blog at salcman.posterous.com. He currently serves as Special Lecturer in the Osher Institute at Towson University.

He has been writing poetry for forty years. His poems appear in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Connecticut Review, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, Margie, New Letters, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Ontario Review, Orbis (UK), Poet Lore, Raritan, Rattle, and Salzburg Poetry Review (Austria). His poems have been heard on NPR's "All Things Considered" and WYPR's "The Signal". He can be seen and heard reading his poetry in "Euphoria", Lee Boot's award-winning documentary on the brain and creativity (2008) and on his web site at www.salcman.com. His poems have received four nominations for a Pushcart Prize, one for a Best of The Web Award, and have appeared in several anthologies, including the last three editions of the Alhambra Poetry Calendar, an International Anthology of Classic and Contemporary Poetry (Shafiq Naz, editor). His poems have been commissioned by the Williams College Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He serves on the Board of the CityLit Festival in Baltimore, the advisory committee for the Center for the Book of the Maryland Humanities Council and gives numerous readings throughout the United States. He is the author of four chapbooks, the most recent of which is "Stones In Our Pockets" (Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin, 2007), and two collections, "The Clock Made of Confetti" (Orchises Press, 2007), nominated for The Poets Prize in 2009 and Finalist for the Towson University Prize in Literature, and "The Enemy of Good Is Better", forthcoming from Orchises (2010/2011).

Dr. Salcman and his wife live in Baltimore with a highly demanding cat; they have two children who are presently out of the house. - További ismertető: "Belelapozás".