Jill Magi
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About the author
Jill Magi, writer and visual artist, is the author of Threads, a hybrid work of prose, poetry, and collage, published in 2007 by Futurepoem Books. Her chapbook, Cadastral Map, an investigation of the problems of North American nature writing, was published in 2005 by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Jill is also the author of several small, personally distributed handmade books. She is one of two writers-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, where she is at work on a hybrid manuscript of prose, poetry, visual art, and sound art collaborations that explore the architecture of memory and ideology in lower Manhattan and elsewhere in North America. Her writing has been anthologized in Fiction from the Brooklyn Rail and is forthcoming in Letters to Poets and The Eco-language Reader. Other works have been published in HOW2: Experimental Writing by Women, The New Review of Literature, Aufgabe, Chain, Pierogi Press, and exhibited at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, The Brooklyn Pier Shows, and the International Meeting of Visual Poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, teaches at City College and the Eugene Lang College of the New School, and is the editor of Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press.