Michelle Naka Pierce

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of nine titles, including Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham, 2012), awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, which documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko's Seagram murals. She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) with art by Sue Hammond West and Symptom of Color (Dusie, 2011) are among her most recent works. Pierce is professor and dean of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.