Nicole Mauro has published poems and criticism in numerous journals, and is the author of six chapbooks and one volume of poetry, The Contortions (Dusie Books, 2009). Her second full-length collection, Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in 2014. In addition, she is the co-editor of an interdisciplinary book about sidewalks titled Intersection: Sidewalks and Public Space (with Marci Nelligan, ChainArts, 2008). Her interests include the avant-garde, alternative/collective poetry making and exchange practices, and poetries as objects.