JOYELLE MCSWEENEY, one of the most exciting new talents in contemporary American literature, is the author of two genre novels, Nylund, the Sarcographer, a baroque noir from Tarpaulin Sky, Press, and Flet, a sci-fi from Fence Books. She is also the author of two books of poetry, The Commandrine and Other Poems, and The Red Bird, both also from Fence. With Johannes Göransson, she is the co-founder of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She teaches in the MFA program at Notre Dame and lives in Mishawaka, Indiana.