Author

Thomas Heise is the author of two books, Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande, 2006) and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2010). He was awarded the Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2006 and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is an Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, where he teaches contemporary urban literature, writing, and critical theory. [2011]