I am a transnational poet, theorist, and artist, author of fifteen books published in the US, UK, and Europe, and one artists book published in Aotearoa/New Zealand. My books range from the poetry of The Seven Voices (1998) to a memoir, Anti M (2013) and a novel, Tender Girl (2015), to the essays of Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies (2026), I’ve also published many poetry chapbooks and essays on visual and literary arts and the ethics of interpretation. Performance talks and sound art collaborations have been important to me during this century. US born and having also lived in Europe, the Middle East, and Malaysia, I currently live in New Zealand.

With a background in digital arts, modernism, and poetics, including inaugurating the theory of literary “deformance” in my 1997 PhD, I taught at several US universities and gained tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving outside the US again in 2006. In 2025 I left academia to focus otherwise.

The Electronic Poetry Center and pennsound feature author pages with some of my work, including audio versions of Tomorrowland (2009) and Tender Girl, and a 2017 art film of Tomorrowland (director Wes Tank) is on youtube. Other traces of my commitments are findable online, yet site-specific living and art-making are my true loves, and languages are the lungs that most breathe me; and books are sites.