Roger Conover
Writer, editor, curator, and founding editor of the art and architecture publishing program at MIT Press, Roger Conover was the first full time art and architecture editor there and the only one for more than 40 years.
He was responsible for the selection and publication of over 1000 books, many by first time authors who became luminaries in their fields. Earlier, he was a commercial fisherman and an editor at TAC, the Architects Collaborative.
Trained as a poet (BA Bowdoin College; MA University of Minnesota) Conover’s writings have been widely published in several languages. He has written extensively about avant-garde poets and artists, and edited two editions of Mina Loy’s work. A dual citizen of the USA and Slovenia, he has also curated exhibitions on contemporary art in Istanbul (ZKM, Karlsruhe) and the Balkans (Neue Galerie, Graz). He is now writing a biography of the Dadaist-poet-boxer Arthur Cravan.