Jocelyn Saidenberg is a Bay Area writer, performer and educator whose books of poetry include: Mortal City (Parentheses), Dusky (Belladonna), Cusp (Kelsey Street Press), Negativity (Atelos Press), Shipwreck (2nd Floor Projects), and Dead Letter (Roof). With Brandon Brown she co-curated the Performance Writing Series at New Langton Arts. She is one of the twelve members of the Right Window collective and the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Currently she's working on an elaboration of the atomic poetics of Lucretius. Photo by Frank Mueller.