JOYELLE McSWEENEY

Guggenheim fellow JOYELLE McSWEENEY is the author of ten books of poetry, fiction, drama, translation and criticism, including the award-winning Toxicon and Arachne and the newly-released Death Styles, both from Nightboat Books; the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks; and the critical book The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, a work of decadent eco-poetics. Her honors include the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is co-founder of the international press, Action Books, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA.