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	Amy King was born in Baltimore, MD but grew up in Stone Mountain, GA. She obtained her M.A. in American Studies with an emphasis on Poetics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and has taught there as well. Throughout her Buffalo and Brooklyn lives, Amy King has met and studied with some of the finest, encouraging poets and writers around, including L. S. Asekoff, Charles Bernstein, Carl Dennis, Alexis De Veaux, Cornelius Eady, Elaine Equi, Irving Feldman, Susan Howe, Ron Padgett, and David Trinidad. She is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from BlazeVOX Books, and The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press). She is also editor-in-chief for the literary arts journal, MiPOesias, an interview correspondent for miPOradio, and the editor of the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania). Amy teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. Please visit www.amyking.org for more.