
Amy Catanzano is the author of three books. Her cross-genre novella combining poetry with fiction, Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella (Noemi Press, 2014), received the Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction. Multiversal (Fordham University Press, 2009) received the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry and was selected by Michael Palmer for publication as the recipient of Fordham University's Poets Out Loud Prize. iEpiphany was published by Anne Waldman’s independent publishing venture, Erudite Fangs Editions, in 2009. She is also the author of an electronic-chapbook, the heartbeat is a fractal (Ahadada Books, 2009). Her poetry, fiction, and cross-genre writing has appeared in literary journals such as Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence Magazine,and New American Writing. Recent speculative essays on the intersections of literature, art, and science appear in Jacket2 and Poems and Poetics. Catanzano is an Assistant Professor of English, the Poet-in-Residence, and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Prior to teaching at Wake Forest, Catanzano taught at Naropa University in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Selected Links: Jacket2: The Imaginary Present Quantum Poetics at Poems and Poetics Jacket2: Poetry & Science I09: Best Books of Poetry for Every Kind of Science Fiction Fan Action Yes Tarpaulin Sky Journal La Petite Zine Web Conjunctions