Lisa Samuels has a PhD from the University of Virginia and currently teaches at The University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has published four chapbooks and ten books, most recently Mama Mortality Corridos (Holloway 2010), Gender City (Shearsman 2011), Wild Dialectics (Shearsman 2012), Anti M (Chax Press 2013) and Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman 2017). She is also the author of essays and edited work in poetry, theory, and critical practice, and has produced a 2-CD recording with soundscapes of her 2009 book Tomorrowland (Shearsman). Having lived in various parts of the United States, as well as in Sweden, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Malaysia, Spain, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, she is interested in transculturalism, especially as embodied in languages and the digitas.