Michael Angelo Tata received his M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University, his M.A. in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research, and his Ph.D. in English Literature through the CUNY Graduate Center. His poetry and criticism have appeared in the journals M/C, Ugly Couch, Lit, Lungfull, eye: rhyme, kenning, Bad Subjects, Found Object, Rhizomes and to the quick, as well as the Critical Studies compilation From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today (New York: Rodopi, 2001) and the Madonna Studies anthology Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations Newcastle [UK]: Ashgate , 2004). His first chapbook of poems, The Multiplication of Joy into Integers, won Blue Light Press’s 2003 poetry prize. His poetry has also appeared in the collections This New Breed: Bad Boys, Gents andBarbarians 2 (Port Orchard [US]: Windstorm, 2004) and Bordered Sexualities (San Diego: Hyperbole Books & San Diego UP, 2005).