*Author cofounded the performance-based Black Took Collective: a group of Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality.

*Book is of interest to scholars, readers, and students of twentieth-Century and Contemporary African American Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Popular Culture/Race and Sexuality, Cultural Studies/Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives, and Contemporary Black Visual Art and Culture.

*Author was the winner of the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry, the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award and has received four Pushcart Prize nominations

*Author has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, the Anderson Center for the Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program

*Author is currently a professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz

*Author hold's Ph.D. in English from CUNY Graduate Center and M.A. in Poetry from New York University