sentences:  Sallis has worked as a creative writing teacher, respiratory therapist, musician, music teacher, screenwriter, periodical editor, book reviewer, and translator, winning acclaim for his 1993 version of Raymond Queneau's Saint Glinglin.Trained as a respiratory therapist, Sallis worked in intensive care for both adults and newborns at many hospitals.In 2000 he appeared as himself in the UK Channel 4 project "Asylum" (2000)—a mix of both documentary and fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century after a virus has wiped out most of the culture—written and directed by Christopher Petit and Iain Sinclair.