MICHAEL LEONG is the author of e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009), a collection of poetry; I, the Worst of All (BlazeVox [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat; and several chapbooks including The Archivist’s Cloudy Quotient (Beard of Bees Press, 2010) and Midnight’s Marsupium (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010), which was nominated for the &Now Awards and selected as an Editor's Pick of 2010 by Stride Magazine.  His next full-length collection, Cutting Time with a Knife, will be published by Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, and his next chapbook, The Philosophy of Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation, will be published by Delete Press.  He is currently a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.