Chris Stroffolino received his M.A. in poetry in 1988. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Stealer's Wheel (Hard Press, 1999), Oops (Pavement Saw Press, 1994) and Speculative Primitive (Tougher Disguises, 2005), as well as several limited-edition chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Talisman, New American Writing, Caliban, Sulfur, Lingo, and many other literary journals. He also co-edited An Anthology of New (American) Poets (1998). Stroffolino has a musical side as well, and put together a tribute to Anne Sexton's rock band for the Poetry Society of America before moving to Oakland and forming the band Continuous Peasant in 2002. He started performing his music solo in the spring of 2006, and is currently working on his first solo album. Stroffolino has taught at New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts, and Drexel University, and is visiting faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Franciso Art Institute.