Publisher's Synopsis
*Author earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia; MFA in Creative Writing from the New School; PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. *Professor at Wesleyan University. *Received Irving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature (2007); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Artist Residency (2015); mentor for the Poetry Project's Jerome Foundation funded Emerge-Surface-Be program (2018-2019). *Author of the poetry collections My Gradual Demise & Honeysuckle (1994) and Servicing the Salamander (1998); co-author of The Haiku Year (1998)-a project requiring him to compose one haiku a day. *Published a collection of short stories, They Change the Subject (2005), and a trilogy of prose pieces, Your Body Figured (2008). *Outline of My Lover (2000), named an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. *Outline of My Lover (2000) was adapted in part by the Forsythe Company for their ballet and live film "Kammer/Kammer."
