Monkeybicycle

by Elizabeth Alexander, Steven Seighman (Editor)

Small press journal with works by: Elizabeth Alexander, Lauren J. Barnhart, David Barringer, Andrew Bomback, Ryan Boudinot, Arthur Bradford, Susannah Breslin, Laura Carney, Dennis Dillingham, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Elizabeth Ellen, Jamey Gallagher, Richard P. Goodwin, Dan Kennedy, Lee Klein, Josh Kron, John Leary, E. Loic Leuschner, Pasha Malla, Shauna McKenna, Laura McCullough, Corey Messler, Stephen Oliver, Ed Page, Whitney Pastorek, Dawn Raffel, Max Ruback, Shya Scanlon, Steven Seighman, Matthew Simmons, Justyn Smith, Eric Spitznagel, Damon Stewart, Susan Townsend, Amy Wilkinson and Claire Zulkey.

319 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Elizabeth Alexander is a Quantrell Award-winning American poet, essayist, playwright, university professor, and scholar of African-American literature and culture. She teaches English language/literature, African-American literature, and gender studies at Yale University. Alexander was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard during the 2007-08 academic year.

Alexander's poems, short stories, and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Village Voice, The Women's Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Her play Diva Studies, which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.

On December 17th, 2008 it was announced that she will compose a poem which she shall recite at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009.