Michael Anania’s most recent books of poetry are In Natural Light and Heat Lines, both from Asphodel Press. A new collection of poetry, Continuous Showings, is due out later this year. His work is widely anthologized and has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Czech. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines and in the novel, The Red Menace (Avon Books), and a selection of his essays and reviews was published in In Plain Sight: Obsessions, Morals and Domestic Laughter (Moyer Bell). A second collection of essays, Rocks, Paper, Scissors, will appear in 2012. Anania has been an editor and taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Austin, Texas, and on Lake Michigan.