Dana Teen Lomax is a poet, filmmaker, and educator. Her recent project THE BEAUTIFUL is forthcoming from Black Radish Books; together with Jennifer Firestone, she edited Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia) which Cornel West called a “courageous and visionary book.” Her most recent editorial project, Kindergarde, won the 2014 John Hopkins University Press Prize for Excellence in Northern American Literature. She is the former Director of Small Press Traffic and currently teaches writing at San Francisco State University and Del Mar Middle School.