E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published four chapbooks: 4×4 (unarmed journal press), TRANSECTs (Sona Books), Out of Paradise, (e-chapbook from Delete Press), and most recently Close-range Divinities (Shirt Pocket Press). He had a solo exhibition, an installation called Trees Are Alphabets, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a mail-art piece in a group show at Phoenix Art Museum. His poems have been published in The Paris Review, EOAGH, eccolinguistics, About Place Journal, unarmed journal, and others. He was chosen by Laura Mullen and Angela Hume for ‘Heir Apparent‘ in The Volta‘s Trash Issue which featured a visual TRANSECT. He curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics reading at EXIT ART from 2009-2012 and was a founding board member of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND).