O.B.B

*This book collects a series of collaborations with comic artists, including Ernest Concepcion and Alex Tarampi

*Author was the Queens Poet Laureate from 2010 to 2014

*Author organized poetry and art festival at Queens Museum of Art, Eterniday: Queens Poet Lore Festival of the Language Arts

*Author was profiled by Ian Frazier in The New Yorker in 2015

*Author participated in the Queens International in 2018-2019

*Author was a featured blogger on The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet

*Author is Program Director of Poets House

*Author has 20 years of experience as an educator both at college level and secondary & middle school levels (ELA) as a public school teacher

*Author holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia and MFA from Bard College

*Awards: Queens Council of the Arts, Queens Poet Laureate, Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award for the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), 2004