Michael Franco is a poet, playwright and artist. He has been contributing editor for lift magazine, and a member of the poetry panel for AGNI magazine. For ten years he directed the Word of Mouth Reading Series in Cambridge, MA. In the fall of 2016 he inaugurated a new series, Xit the Bear in the Press Room at Oxford Street, which you can check out on Facebook and Youtube. His previous publications include: The Library Of Dr Dee (dromenon press for Pressed Wafer, 2006), How To Live (Zoland, 1998), The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees (lift books, 1996), and others. He lives and works in Somerville, MA with his wife Isabel and son Thomas.