I was born and grew up in Minneapolis, which is where I did both my undergraduate (BA Japanese, BA English) degree and my MFA. After my MFA, I moved to France, where I worked in a small town called Dole for a year, after which I moved to Nottingham, UK, where I did my doctorate in Critical Theory, writing about love and deconstruction. I now live in Ghent, Belgium. My first book, music for landing planes by, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2007. A second is forthcoming, also from Milkweed. My current bodies of work are about femininity, embodiment, art (Kiki Smith's work in particular), 20th-century history, and theory. I write poems, essays, and fiction. I like public transportation. I speak Japanese, French, English, and Dutch. This concludes the biography portion of the exam. For four years I ran the Nottingham Poetry Series—coordinating readings, organizing conferences, and teaching workshops and individual tutorials of my own design. I am available for writing consultancy. Some feedback from courses I have taught is available here. With Jonathan Vanhaelst, I run MIEL, a small and daring press. In March 2011, the journal I edit, 111O, published its first issue. 111O/2 is out now, too! 111O/3 came out in March 2012. 111O/4 is due in September 2012. I am spectacularly bad about updating this page when work gets taken, but: some poems have recently appeared in in The Pinch, diode, the Colorado Review and in Cerise Press. My story 'A Matter of Public Record' was a finalist in the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest, and is published here. An essay, 'Algarve: an Abecedarium', was published in The Collagist in September 2011. Excerpts from my book-length poem, Scale model of the world (inexhaustive) were published in Winter 2012 in Free Verse. Two poems (one from a series of fifteen for Kiki Smith) are in konundrum engine literary review / and another poem for Kiki Smith is in Quarterly West / another poem for Kiki Smith is in Midway Journal, along with one about women with birds' heads / and two poems are in Precipitate / 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 / You can find older work scattered around, including in 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 / and there's a story, "the prairie town" in the Rake, Dec. 07 / I am a recipient of two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes and a finalist for an SLS fellowship in poetry (2011). 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. In 2011-12 I was writer-in-residence at Ellis Guilford School in Nottingham, through First Story. A review of Maggie Nelson's book Bluets was published by Cerise Press. Another review of this book appears in The Rumpus. Here is my review of Martha Silano's The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. I also review for American Poetry Journal and Staple (UK). readings / reviews / links / love / last updated 13/Aug/2012