Joyelle McSweeney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her first collection of poetry, The Red Bird , was chosen by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. Her poetry, hybrid fiction and other prose, translations, and critical writings have appeared in journals such as the Boston Review, American Book Review , and boundary2 . With Johannes Goransson, she publishes Action Books and Action, Yes , a press and web-quarterly dedicated to international writing and hybrid forms.