Language and Thinking Faculty

Language and Thinking draws faculty from Bard College and from institutions throughout the United States and abroad. Our instructors include scholars and artists from a wide range of fields who are trained in the program’s innovative approach to interdisciplinary inquiry.

2022 Faculty

Kimberly Alidio

Kimberly Alidio

Kimberly Alidio (she/they) is the author of four books of poetry, including why letter ellipses, : once teeth bones coral : , a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and after projects the resound. Their most recent book, Teeter, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and will be published August 2023. She has a PhD in History from the University of Michigan and a MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, They have led workshops on experimental docupoetics at Naropa’s Summer Writing Program and at Kundiman, and a workshop on writing with ambient sound and the field recording for The Poetry Project. In addition, she teaches prose, poetics, and history for Bard Prison Initiative, Bard Early College, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. With their partner, the poet Stacy Szymaszek, they live on unceded Munsee-Mohican lands, otherwise known as New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.
Alexis Almeida

Alexis Almeida

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. Her recent poems, translations, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, Gulf Coast, Folder, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. Her long poem, I Have Never Been Able to Sing, is forthcoming from Ugly Ducking Presse, and her translation of Roberta Iannamico's Wreckage is just out from Toad Press. Her translation of Marina Yuszczuk's Single Mother is forthcoming from Spork Press, and her translation of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares is forthcoming from Les Figues. She is the recent recipient of a Fulbright research fellowship to Argentina, and has received awards and residencies from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, the Center for Book Arts, Bread Loaf, and the Banff Center. She has served on the editorial board of Asymptote and The Elephants, and is currently putting together, with many other translators, an anthology of contemporary female poets living in Argentina. She lives in Providence, where she teaches and makes broadsides for 18 Owls Press.
Miriam Atkin

Miriam Atkin

Miriam Atkin is a Catskills-based poet. Her creative practice has been largely concerned with the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music and dance, and has lately extended to the co-founding of Pinsapo, a publishing collective of international artists across disciplines. She has contributed essays, reviews, interviews and poems to Art in America, Art Handler, Haunt Journal, Caesura,The Recluse and elsewhere. She was a 2014 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at St. Mark’s Poetry Project. She holds an MFA in art criticism from School of Visual Arts and a PhD in English literature from CUNY Graduate Center.
Ernest Bryant

Ernest Bryant

Ernest A. Bryant III is a transdisciplinary artist and critic. His interests include drawing, printmaking, nature, new media, conflict, aesthetics, and value. As L.P.I. (the Last Physician of Images), Bryant is the founder and host of the online forum and discussion series “Criticism and Value,” a forum for sharing experimental essays about art, criticism, and hosting live public conversations between living and non-living national and international artists. Bryant was an SEI research fellow and assistant professor in the Experimental Foundation Studies Division, and the Illustration department at RISD. He was an inaugural fellow and faculty for the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and taught for the BARD Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library. Bryant has served as a resident critic and teaching fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, as a guest critic in Graphic Design at Pratt Institute, in Sculpture and Textiles at RISD, and in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Bryant was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Shangyuan Art Scene in Beijing, China. He has received fellowships for his work from the Jerome Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yale University, and RISD.
John Burns

John Burns

John Burns is Associate Professor of Spanish Studies at Bard College. Originally from Maine, he has lived in Chile and Spain and recently spent a semester teaching in Japan. He is interested in literature and literary translation, with a specific focus on contemporary Latin American poetry. He has written about experimental writers from Chile and Mexico and the ways in which their work intersects with politics and history. He is excited to teach in L&T again for many reasons, but perhaps most of all because he still remembers how important the texts that comprise the course were to him as a young man and how they continue to resonate with him many years later.
Tim Casey

Tim Casey

Tim Casey (B.F.A., M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design). Painter; has had solo exhibitions in New York City at Pratt Gallery, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, The Clocktower, and Tomoko Liguori Gallery, and at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York. Has also exhibited at Artists' Space, New York City; Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Miami; Lesley Heller Gallery, New York City; and Pierogi Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, and Momenta Gallery in Brooklyn. Reviews in Arts Magazine, Art in America, New York Times. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Jewish Museum, and other public and private collections. He teaches Visual Art and First Year Seminar at Bard High School Early College, and has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Tufts University, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Pratt Institute, and Middlebury College. Participant, Yale Writers Conference, 2012.
Rajnesh Chakrapani

Rajnesh Chakrapani

Raj Chakrapani lived in Myanmar as a teacher for the US Department of State and served as Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania and Liberia. He received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. At Iowa he wrote his collection of poems Brown People with Colonial Histories and his MFA thesis on Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene. He also took classes in experimental film and translation. He recently completed a series of short films that explore his family video archives and communities with shifting perspectives of home. His poems are placed or forthcoming in Lana Turner, Speculative City, Word Thug, Sequestrum and http://Crevice.ro. The first part of his trilogy of films will be published on Triquarterly this summer and the rest are available on youtube. He writes interviews for The Rumpus and recently interviewed the novelist SJ Sindu.
Sean Colonna

Sean Colonna

Sean Colonna is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at Columbia University, where he is writing a dissertation entitled “Drugs, Music, and the Aesthetic: A Decolonial Analysis of Germany’s Transition to Romanticism.” His research compares historical accounts of drug-induced experiences with contemporaneous descriptions of musical aesthetics in order to explore the influences of coloniality on Western theories of subjectivity and consciousness. He has two forthcoming publications: “Using Mastery Objectives to Foster Inclusive Teaching” in Teaching Gradually: Practical Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies for Graduate Students, by Graduate Students (Stylus, 2021); and "Coffee and Music: Anthropotechnologies of the Enlightenment" in the upcoming issue of World of Music Journal.
Ziad Dallal

Ziad Dallal

Ziad Dallal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. His first research project, Arab Literary Politics, studies how nineteenth century Arab authors deployed the discourse of civilization in their literary narratives to imagine their place in the modern world. His second research project, Uneventful Literature, investigates a trend in contemporary Arabic literature that rejects a commitment to politics as a structuring event. His research is informed by political philosophy, critical theory, and translation theory and praxis.
Anna Dolan

Anna Dolan

Anna Dolan (M.F.A., playwriting, Yale University; M.F.A., directing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) teaches Playwriting in the Creative Writing Program and the English Department at Central Connecticut State University. She also teaches in the Young Writers' Workshop at Fir Acres and Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is a playwright and has written (and had produced) over 30 plays. She has recently written a recitation/adaptation of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" for Maloney Theater in New Britain Connecticut, and an adaptation of "Men in the Sun" for the Freedom Theater of Jenin in Palestine. She received a grant from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to write and direct two plays for the Sokhes Theater of Pohnpei in Micronesia-FSM, where she taught at the College of Micronesia-FSM for two years.
Florian Duijsens

Florian Duijsens

Florian Duijsens teaches at Bard College Berlin and is the co-founder of the Dead Ladies Show, a podcast and event series about women who achieved amazing things while they were alive. He works as a writer, editor, and translator (most recently of Hanna Bervoets’ Everything There Was), and for many years was the fiction editor of SAND Journal and senior editor of Asymptote.
Ursula N. Embola

Ursula N. Embola

Originally from the Republic of Cameroon in West/Central Africa, Ursula N. Embola has been living in the United States since 1997. Ursula worked as a non-profit fundraiser for 17 years prior to becoming an academic. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Buea, a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from Drew University. Ursula currently teaches English and Writing at Mercy College and Westchester Community College. Her research interests include the connections between West African and African American women writers of the 20th Century.
Xhosa Frazier

Xhosa Frazier

Xhosa Frazier is a writer and educator. He has a Bachelor's degree in English literature from SUNY New Paltz, and a Masters degree in secondary education, with a focus on English literature, from Bard college. He taught for five years in special education in Hudson, NY and Athens, NY, and has been a middle school and high school English teacher at the Woodstock Day School for the past ten years.

He has been organizing poetry readings in Manhattan, New Paltz, Kingston, and Woodstock, for the past twenty years. Working under Janine Pommy Vega, he taught poetry workshops at Sullivan County prison. His poems have been published in Hunger magazine, and he recently had an essay published in The Forward. He currently lives in Woodstock, NY.
Carolina Gómez Montoya

Carolina Gómez Montoya

Carolina Gómez Montoya (MA and PhD in Latin American and Peninsular Literature, University of Maryland) has taught at various Bard programs and partnerships, including Bard High School Early College, the Writing Knowledge Program and the Language and Thinking Program. Carolina is co-editor of an upcoming poetry anthology for Stenen Press and will soon be joining the faculty at the Young Writer’s Workshop at Simon’s Rock. Carolina’s writing appears in Literal: Latin American Voices/Voces Latinoamericanas; ¡Basta! Mujeres colombianas contra la violencia de género (Bogotá: Debate escrito, 2015) and in Oregon Humanities magazine. In September, Carolina is moving to Paris to pursue a creative writing program at Université Paris 8.
Kythe Heller

Kythe Heller

Kythe Heller is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, and scholar whose work spans text, film, music, performance, and multimedia social practice. Currently, she is completing a ThD doctorate at Harvard University under the Committee on the Study of Religion, in Comparative Studies in Religion, Religious Thought (Philosophy and Theology), and Literary Studies and the Arts, with a PhD secondary field in Literary Arts, Film, and Visual Studies/Critical Media Practice. She holds an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BA in English Literature from Reed College.

Recently published work includes a collection of poems, Firebird (Arrowsmith), nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, and several critical studies on medieval and contemporary mysticism and spirituality, phenomenology of the senses, aesthetics, and the arts, including "An Ethnography of Spirituality" in Arvo Pårt's White Light: Media, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press), "Living Backwards" in Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Poetry (Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics), and "The Heart Receptive of Every Form: Representations of Fire in the unio mystica of Mahomet (Harvard Divinity School Graduate Journal). She has received fellowships and grant awards from The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Mellon Foundation, Harvard University, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Film, performance, and installation work has been screened and exhibited across the US and Canada.

She is also the founder and creative director of Vision Lab, a global art and research collective in the future of the human spirit, based at Harvard Divinity School and creating work to address contemporary spirituality, social and environmental justice, and technology. She edits international art and culture journal, Forecast, and is a poet on the faculty of Bard College’s Language and Thinking Program.
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David Liu

David Liu

David Liu is a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, where he was also on faculty - and a bumbling, cooking dad of three. Born in Taiwan and taught in several countries across the world, he has toiled widely in the humanities, arts, critical media and science studies, crossing geotemporal divides. He likes giving "diascopic" courses on pressing contemporary issues, or those on specific books in the original (lately Boethius, Deleuze, Weil). His main intellectual projects are to construct a transcultural, post-Deleuzian metaphysics, as well as a theory of posthumanist, mediated culture called “curiosity.” Recent writings include essays on “religion," Deleuze and capitalized affect, and Daoist (me)ontology. In his imaginary spare time David still makes music, translates philosophic (and) poetic texts (these days Laozi, Dante, Heine), and works on his native Taiwanese as a newly written language in Han characters. More broadly, he is helping folks launch a new college, and conceiving a global institute in Rome. David is always open to (un)learning from and with all he encounters. For him, radical learning and unlearning go hand in hand in living into the sublime, intricate texture of things.
Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss

Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss

Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (B.A., New School for Social Research; M.A., Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Training and Research Institute for Self-Psychology; Psy.D. (critical theory/psychology), Wright Institute/Professional School of Psychology, 2012) works on the role of high culture in Jewish assimilation and the pairing of high culture and barbarism in the Holocaust. She is founding director of the Terezin Publishing Project and editor of the forthcoming English-Language edition of H. G. Adler's "Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community" (Cambridge University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Terezin Publishing Project, 2014). The Terezin Publishing project has also brought out a reprint of "The Terezin Requiem," "Psychological Life in Terezin," "Composers in Theresienstadt" and other newly-translated works on Jewish life in Central Europe. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The Journal of the International Political Science Association, International Journal of Political Psychology and Political Socialization, The New York Times and The Prague Post. She is currently writing articles for TIKKUN and Jewish Currents. She has written extensively on the Jewish encounter with modernity and is author of the forthcoming "Songs in the Wilderness: Music in the Holocaust and the Betrayal of 'Bildung.'" She sits on the Board of Directors of Partners for Progressive Israel (MeretzUSA). Her many interdisciplinary affiliations include the International Society for Political Psychology and the International Psychohistorical Association, and she has given presentations on the Jewish encounter with modernity at conferences, schools, religious centers and JCCs in the United States and abroad (Poland, Austria, Holland, Czech Republic). She is the recipient of grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and Internaciones. This past spring, under the auspices of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College (with a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund), she curated the inaugural concert/lecture series, "Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism."
Andrew McCarron

Andrew McCarron

Andrew McCarron (B.A., Bard; M.T.S., Harvard University; M.Phil, Ph.D, Graduate Center of The City University of New York) currently chairs the Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics Department at Trinity School in Manhattan, and also teaches in the English Department. He has published a collection of poetry called Mysterium (Edgewise Press, 2011), and two book-length psychological studies of artists’ lives: Three New York Poets: Charles North, Tony Towle, and Paul Violi (Station Hill Press, 2015), and Dylan on Dylan: the transfigurations of an American troubadour (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2015).
Jillian Peña

Jillian Peña

Jillian Peña is a Latinx dance and video artist whose work seeks to make visible the confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media, and spirituality. Jillian received a 2016 Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer in New York and was awarded the 2014 Prix Jardin d'Europe, the European Prize for Outstanding Emerging Choreography at ImpulsTanz Dance Festival in Vienna. Her videos have screened in over 13 countries, and her live performance has been presented internationally, including at Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory, 92nd St Y, Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York, and at ImPulsTanz Vienna, Modern Art Oxford, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Sophiensaele Berlin, and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, PS122, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, the National Dance Center of Bucharest, and Archauz Denmark. Jillian has created work for American Ballet Theater, American Dance Festival's Footprints Program, and the University of the Arts. She was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar during which she was awarded an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a fellowship recipient, and a Practice-based MPhil at Goldsmiths University.
Kay Prevallet

Kay Prevallet

Kristin Prevallet (M.A, PhD) is a poet, scholar, and practitioner of language arts whose integrative work brings together somatic practices, performance, and ecolinguistics. She is the author of seven books including I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time and Trance Poetics. She is a visiting professor of poetry at Eugene Lang College (The New School) and is on the faculty of the Bard Prison Initiative. Her most recent project, Of Hours and Making, is a book, online course, and community published by the Belladonna Collaborative.
Andrea Quaid

Andrea Quaid

Andrea Quaid’s (B.A., M.F.A., Antioch University, Ph.D. University of California Santa Cruz) work focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, pedagogy, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters, a collection of works about experimental writing and community. Recent publications include two collaboratively-written essays, “Variations on a Theme: Teaching Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric" (albeit) and “Alarming Logic: Feminist Poetics as Discursive/Pedagogic Intervention” (Feminist Spaces Journal). Her essay “Place as Palimpsest: Literary Works and Cultural-Political Resistance” appears in Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (Routledge). Other work appears in American Book Review, BOMBlog, Jacket2, Lana Turner, LIT and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is series co-editor of the new Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. She recently co-organized the Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogiessymposium. She is Literature Faculty in Bard College’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program (Los Angeles) and a Faculty Associate in Bard College’s Language and Thinking Program (New York). She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts.
David Richardson

David Richardson

David Richardson writes fiction and essays. He is the editor of dispersed holdings, a small press. In addition to the Language & Thinking Program, he teaches writing at UMass and the Bard Prison Initiative. He holds an MFA from UMass Poets & Writers and a BA from Haverford College. He lives in Western Mass. For more info, visit davidrichardson.page.
Anca Roncea

Anca Roncea

Anca Roncea grew up in Romanian, speaks Modern Greek, French, and writes in English. She has lived in Bucharest, Iowa City, Yangon, Los Angeles, Paris and is currently in New York. Through her work she explores the space where language can create pivots in the midst of displacement while incorporating the aesthetics of Constantin Brancusi and the women artists of the Dada Movement. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the UIowa Literary Translation MFA program. She also holds an MA in American Cultural Studies from the University of Bucharest and in 2012 was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley. Her work can be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Beecher's Magazine, Omniverse and Asymptote, the Bare Life Review and Lana Turner.
Sarah Rosenthal

Sarah Rosenthal

Sarah Rosenthal is a writer and educator. She is currently at work on a collection of essays examining anxiety and language in America. Her writing has appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Sun Magazine, GEN, Creative Nonfiction, Gay Mag, LitHub, Electric Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, CrimeReads, The Adroit Journal, Columbia Journal, and beyond. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University and her B.A. in Written Arts from Bard College.
Ali Faut Sengul

Ali Faut Sengul

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw

Robin Tremblay-McGaw

Robin Tremblay-McGaw lives in San Francisco and teaches at Santa Clara University and in Bard’s Language & Thinking Program. She is the co-editor with Rob Halpern of From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice, 2017). Her book of poems, Dear Reader (Ithuriel's Spear), came out in August 2015. Some recent published work and talks include: “A Short Talk on a Long Topic:Whiteness in Poetry, Art, and Film: A Talk on a Poem in-Progress: BenjaminMoore’s White” (SCU Center for Arts and Humanities, May 2020); Poetry, Podcasts and Pop Culture: Emily Dickinson: Race, Class and Queer Love; “A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative, in Sillages critiques, December 2020; “Archive” a poem in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, a special issue: Writing in the Pause, October 2020; a poem/essay “the queen’s english ain’t her own” in Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry/philosophy/performativity, edited by Kyoo Lee, Roof Books, 2020; “A Real Fictional Depth”: Transtexuality & Transformation in Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe in Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics. Medieval Institute Publications ( 2022); an article “Sounding Out: Nathaniel Mackey’s Ontological Archive in Fugitive Run” in the Journal of Narrative Theory Winter 2022. B.A., English, the University of New Hampshire; M.A. English, San Francisco State University; M.L.I.S. University of California, Berkeley; PhD. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sofia Theodore-Pierce

Sofia Theodore-Pierce

Sofia Theodore-Pierce is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Their poetic non-fiction films seek to render the cyclical, digressive, often vulnerable nature of human conversation, either explicitly––audibly or visibly––or implicitly––through structural choices. Their work has been exhibited at festivals and venues such as Antimatter Media Art, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Prismatic Ground, The Wexner Center for the Arts, and FRACTO Berlin. She holds an MFA in Cinematic Arts from UW–Milwaukee and a BA from Bard College. In addition to the Language and Thinking program she teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Christopher Wall

Christopher Wall

Christopher Wall (A.B. Dartmouth, M.A. Boston University, M.F.A. New York University) is a playwright, essayist, and lyricist. He was commissioned in 2017 by New World Symphony (Michael Tilson-Thomas, artistic director) to write a mixed-genre play with music. The result, an exploration of what it is like to live with PTSD, was produced this year. His play Dreams of the Washer King premiered Off Broadway at the Playwrights Realm and was subsequently produced in LA. His other plays have been seen or produced at Northern Stage, Round House, HotCity, Source Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Abingdon, Dartmouth, Fairfield University, and at other theaters. Songs from his chamber musical, The God of In-Between, co-written with Howard Fishman, have been performed at Joe’s Pub, Subculture, and other venues in New York City. He has been in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Vermont Studio Center, and was a fellow at the Norman Mailer Center, where he pursued his other love, nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Longform, LA Review of Books, The Missouri Review, Poets & Writers, and other magazines. Three of his works have been cited as a Notable Essay of the Year in the Best American Essays anthology. He appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show, where he was interviewed by Phillip Lopate and read an excerpt from his prizewinning essay “The Size of the Room.” In 2017 he presented a paper at CCCC based on the innovative pedagogy he developed at Tisch to help students grapple with complexity by analyzing the same stories across different mediums. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
Peter Wallace

Peter Wallace

Peter Wallace was Chair of the Theater Program at Eugene Lang College at the New School University in New York City for many years, where he taught in all the theater disciplines. He has taught at a number of other universities, as well as been a theater director around the United States. He has worked on a number of films—both his and by others—as well as acted in and written a number of plays. He has taught IWT workshops in Myanmar, Turkey, and Russia, and has also been on the L&T faculty at Bard. He got his MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest, writing and teaching.
Joseph Yearous-Algozin

Joseph Yearous-Algozin

Joey Yearous-Algozin is a poet, publisher and teacher. He is the author of A Feeling Called Heaven, Utopia, and the multi-volume The Lazarus Project, among others. With Holly Melgard, he co-authored the trilogy of books: Liquidation, White Trash, and Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family. He is a founding member of the publishing collective, Troll Thread. With an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University and a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, he teaches in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program and is a writing consultant at Baruch College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.