Micah Ballard & Julien Poirier, Eds.

Micah Ballard was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Recent books include Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners, Bettina Coffin, In the Kindness of Night, Scenes from the Saragossa Manuscript, Evangeline Downs (UDP 2006), and Parish Krewes.  He currently works for the MFA in Writing Program at USF. He is co-editor for Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. Julien Poirier helped start the Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, where he edited New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. His first full-length book, El Golpe Chileño, was published by UDP in 2010.  Editorial projects include Jack Micheline’s One of a Kind (UDP 2008), Steve Dalachinsky’s In Glorious Black & White (UDP 2005), Stan Apps’s Soft Hands (UDP 2005), and Cedar Sigo’s Selected Writings (editions 1 and 2). He lives in Berkeley, CA, with his wife and daughter.