Poetry. "Steensen's sources are antiquarian archives, seventeenth-century journals, nineteenth- and twentieth-century magic acts: what has been saved and lost and saved again. [She moves] among materials of ourcheckered past—magicians, changelings, George Washington, séances, Cotton Mather, the Davenport Brothers, W. C. Williams (Paterson), the spirit of Charles Olson. Through imaginative exorcism she brings back into our perception the experience of the invisible dead"—Susan Howe.

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Sasha Steensen is the author of A History of the Human Family (Flying Guillotine Press, 2011), THE METHOD (Fence Books, 2008), A MAGIC BOOK (Fence Books, 2004), correspondence (with Gordon Hadfield, Handwritten Press, 2004), and The Future of an Illusion (Dos Press, 2008). She edits Bonfire Press and serves as one of the poetry editors for Colorado Review. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Colorado State University.