Sascha Feinstein is a poet, essayist, and editor. His poetry collection Misterioso won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, and individual poems have appeared in publications such as American Poetry Review, North American Review, Georgia Review, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Recent awards include a fellowship for poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is the author of two related critical books--Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present and A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry--and his essays have appeared in publications such as The Southern Review, African American Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

      With Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume The Second Set. In 1996, he founded Brilliant Corners:A Journal of Jazz & Literature, which he still edits; Brilliant Corners remains the only literary journal in the world that focuses on jazz-related literature.

      He has given poetry readings and lectures at conferences and institutions throughout the country, including The University of Richmond, Fresno State University, The Panasonic Jazz Festival, the AWP and MLA conferences, the Tennessee Williams Festival, The Lawrenceville School, and The National Arts Club in New York City. An avid saxophonist, he frequently plays for events on campus and at the Bullfrog downtown.