*Audience: readers of autobiography, memoir, autofiction, autotheory, sex-gender adventurers, readers of Queer literature and theory, and color & design aficianadose.

*Author is an acclaimed poet, critic, novelist, artist and performer who has published 21 books

*Author was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature

*Author received a 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature

*Author was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, a co-winner of the Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize and a Whiting Writer's Award Winner

*Author often performs live improvised poetry & piano performances.

*Author essays and poems have been widely published in periodicals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, The Believer, The Iowa Review, Cabinet, and Artforum

*Author's literary archive is at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

*Author is a distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center

*Author has taught at Yale University

*Author holds a PhD at Princeton University and a MA from Johns Hopkins University