Bio: J. Mae Barizo is the author of three books of poetry, Tender Machines, The Cumulus Effect, and Cloud Pantoums, forthcoming from Alice James Books. Becoming Hybrid, her book on creative process and literary theory, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, her work has been anthologized by Simon & Schuster and W. W. Norton and published in The Atlantic, Poetry, Esquire, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. Her operas and dramas have been performed most recently at Carnegie Hall. She is the recipient of awards from Bennington College, the Mellon Foundation, Poets House, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at The New School.