A Bio in Free Verse

I.

I first encountered
design thinking years
ago, when I was working
for an online journal, and
ever since, it’s guided my
career, even shaped
the way I write as a poet.

As a designer, I follow
a data-driven, iterative
process to create
digital products that
solve actual problems
for users and positively
impact their lives.

And as a poet, I’ve
developed a process in
which I manipulate my
rough drafts with
software, then cut them
up and collage the parts
into surreal new work.

II.

I live in the weird,
wonderful state of
Rhode Island, where
I design and write
for Brown University's
interdisciplinary Cogut
Institute for the Humanities.

I’ve published two books
of poems thus far:
The Primitive Observatory,
which won Crab Orchard
Review’s first book
award, and The Ceremonial
Armor of the Impostor.

My recent writing
experiments include a long
magnetic poem about
a minotaur living in
a subway and an ongoing
erasure of Hall Caine’s
1890 novel The Bondman.