In addition to Porno Diva Numero Uno, Stephen Berg's numerous books of poetry include The Daughters, Grief, With Akhmatova at The Black Gates, In it, New & Selected Poems, Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu, Oblivion, and Shaving. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University (where he studied with Robert Lowell and worked as a banquet waiter) and the State University of Iowa. From 1959-61 he and his wife lived in Mexico City.

He has taught at Temple University, Princeton, Haverford and Loyola (Baltimore), and is Professor of English at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Berg has been awarded Rockefeller, Guggenheim, NEA, Pew, Dietrich and Ford fellowships and was commissioned by The Fairmont Park Art Association in 1991 to collaborate with painter Tom Chimes on the public art project “Sleeping Woman,” a 1200' long line glazed atop the stone retaining wall along Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River. In 1972, Berg founded The American Poetry Review and since then has been one of its editors.

He teaches at The University of The Arts and has published essays on the contemporary artists Sidney Goodman, Tom Chimes, Toshiko Takaezu and Rudi Staffel.