Michael Leong is the author of several books of poetry, including e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009), CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE (Black Square Editions, 2012), Who Unfolded My Origami Brain? (Fence Digital, 2017), and WORDS ON EDGE (Black Square Editions, 2018), as well as a translation of the contemporary Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, THE WORST OF ALL (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). He was a FY 2016 NEA Literature Translation Fellow and has won a Face Out grant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. His study Extending the Document in Contemporary North American Poetry is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. He teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.