Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Story by Ugly Duckling Presse, five chapbooks, and has co-edited two anthologies, Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community with Dana Teen Lomax and the forthcoming MIT Press collection with Marcella Durand, Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry, which is based on Firestone's New School course, Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Writing at the New School’s Eugene Lang College.