Brian Kim Stefans is a poet, digital artist and theorist who teaches in the English Department at UCLA. Recent poetry publications include the chapbook A Theatrical Oasis in the Spine of the Moon (2020), "VIVA MISCEGENATION" (Make Now Press, 2013), KLUGE: MEDITATION, AND OTHER WORKS (Roof Books, 2007), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (2006), FASHIONABLE NOISE: ON DIGITAL POETICS (Atelos, 2003), and FREE SPACE COMIX (Roof Books, 1998). A volume of speculative literary criticism, Word Toys: Poetry and Technics, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2017. He translated FESTIVALS OF PATIENCE: THE VERSE POEMS OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD (Green Lantern Press, 2021).