Barry Gifford is the author of more than 40 published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into 28 languages. His most recent prose works are The Up-Down, Writers, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, The Roy Stories, and Landscape with Traveler. Gifford's novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula was adapted by director David Lynch as a film, which won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Gifford has since written several films including Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, and You Can't Win.