Leslie Scalapino is the author of approximately twenty-two books of fiction, poetry, plays and criticism. Her long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award. Her work has been included in over twenty anthologies. Her plays have been performed in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. She teaches at Bard College in the summer MFA Program.

"Leslie Scalapino's writing reveals how far language-and therefore thought itself-can go beyond what we are accustomed to, and the forms in which she writes delightfully defy our expectations. Yet her work is infused with a seriousness, a passion, a timeliness, and an intelligence with which we profoundly identify. A new book by Leslie Scalapino is-always!-cause for celebration. "

-Lydia Davis