Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009), PORTRAIT OF DOOM (Krupskaya, 2015), and GOODNIGHT, MARIE, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL (Roof Books, 2017). She curates the online literary section of Social Text, where she is also managing editor, and recently completed a doctoral dissertation on newspapers, pamphlets, and other writing of the Black Power and Women's Liberation movements. You can find some of her recent poems and essays in Theme Can and Prelude. She grew up in South Carolina, spent time in western Massachusetts and Detroit, and currently lives in Brooklyn.