Laura Elrick is a poet, essayist, educator, and performance writer based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is Associate Professor of Writing at Pratt Institute. Previous works include Propagation (Kenning Editions, 2012), Fantasies in Permeable Structures(Factory School, 2005), and Skincerity (Krupskaya Books, 2003), as well as the trans-media performances Stalk (2008) and Blocks Away (2010). Her work has appeared in the anthologies Viz. Interarts: Interventions and The Eco Language Reader, as well as in numerous journals including Bomb, Mandorla, The Brooklyn Rail, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, LINE, and Aufgabe.