Poet/playwright Fikre Tolossa, Ph.D., is a humanities professor at Lincoln University, Oakland, California. Born in Ethiopia, he spent a year in a Wisconsin high school, then joined Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa. He studied creative writing at Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, graduating as a Man of Letters. His Ph.D. was in comparative literature (magna cum laude) from the University of Bremen, Germany, where he taught literature. He has composed stage and screenplays, authored historical works, and two poetry books in German. His two dramatic epic pieces in rhyming verse in the tradition of Dante, Goethe, and Milton titled "Heaven to Eden" and "Promise Fulfilled" have been highly rated.