Don Cellini is a poet, translator and photographer. He is the author of Approximations / Aproximaciones (2005) and Inkblots (2008) both collections of bilingual poems published by March Street Press. His book of prose poems, Translate into English, as well as the bilingual collection Candidates for Sainthood and Other Sinners / Aprendices del santo, and his translation El silencio de las horas / The Silence of the Hours, are all published by Mayapple Press. A chapbook, Stone Poems, was published by FootHills Publishing.
In addition, he has published books of translations by three Mexican poets: Elías Nandino, Roxana Elvridge-Thomas and Sergio Tellez-Pon as well as the Venezuelas poet Amanda Reveroón.
His photos have been displayed at Adrian College, Adrian Public Library and Image Gallery in Adrian as well as Downtown Latte, Toledo Public Library, the National Center for Nature Photography in Toledo, and at Notre Dame College in Cleveland.
A recipient of fellowships from the King Juan Carlos foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is professor emeritus at Adrian College. He divides his time between Toledo, Ohio and Savannah, Georgia.