Short biography
Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the co-editor, with Ira Livingston, of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader and author of Postliterary America (U of Iowa Press, 2011) The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (U of Minnesota Press, 1993), and several books of poetry and e-poems co-authored with mIEKAL aND. In 2008 she was the resident scholar in Riga, Latvia for the Electronic Text and Textile Project.