

Star Black, who founded the KBG Poetry Reading Series with David Lehman in 1997, is the author of five books of poems, mostly recently Ghostwood, published by Melville House. Her collages appear in Sitgmata Erataca Et Cetera with poems by Bill Knott and an introduction by Mark Doty, published by Saturnalia Books in 2007, and her sonnets are anthologized in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet and Best American Erotic Poems. For the past two years, she has been a visiting lecturer at the Bennington Writers Seminars.