I'm a writer and maker from Minneapolis. I live in Nottingham, UK, where I did my doctorate in Critical Theory, writing about love and deconstruction. My first book, music for landing planes by, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2007. A second is forthcoming, also from Milkweed. I'm currently at work on three full-length projects and a chapbook. These span a history of the long 20th century; a psychogeography of East Anglia; a ghost-world concerned with atoms and cyclamen; and Roman glassworking sites in London. I teach workshops and coordinate a reading series. In March 2011, the journal I edit published its first issue. 111O/2 is out now, too! Submissions are now being read for 111O/3 (March 2012). In 2011-12 I will be writer-in-residence at Ellis Guilford School in Nottingham, through First Story. I am available for writing consultancy, editing, and commentary on manuscripts. Please contact me via email: info {at} ohbara {dot} com for a rates sheet, examples of my work, and clients' feedback. Some feedback from courses I have taught is available here. I was recently a recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and a finalist for an SLS fellowship in poetry. In May 2011, I read at The Reading Room Live, part of the Lincoln Book Festival. The reading was broadcast live on the radio and will be archived on the Reading Room's website. A new essay, 'Algarve: an Abecedarium', was published in The Collagist in September 2011. Poems are forthcoming in Free Verse and in Cerise Press, and there's a pair of new poems now in Precipitate. New poems (one from a series of fifteen for Kiki Smith, one from the book about atoms & cyclamen mentioned above) are in konundrum engine literary review / and another poem for Kiki Smith is in Quarterly West / and you can find my poem "Grey century" in the e-anthology, Two Weeks, from Linebreak / and other poems in Cerise Press / and again in Cerise Press / and if you buy a copy of Staple / and in Crab Creek Review / and at Poetry 365 / and at Verse Daily / and on the Academy of American Poets' site, poets.org / and in Diode / and in Caffeine Destiny / and in Prairie Schooner / and in MO / and in Barrelhouse / a story, "the prairie town" was in the Rake, Dec. 07 / thoughts on poetry from a few years back: 1:2:3:4:5:6 / / readings / reviews / links / love / last updated 5/12/11