Magdalena Zurawski received her M.A. in poetry in 2001. Her manuscript was titled Outing/M and Other Elegies. Her work has been published in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rattapallax, Talisman, Arras, and other magazines. Her chapbook Bruised Nickelodeon was published by Hophophop Press in 2001. Her first novel, The Bruise, has been excerpted in chapbook form by TAXT Press, and was the 2006 recipient of the Ronald Sukenik Innovative Fiction Prize. It will be published by Fiction Collective Two (FC2) in the Fall of 2008. Her work has also appeared in the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press). She has been a writing fellow at the Millay Colony, is working towards her Ph.D. in English at Duke University, and blogs as minoramerican