25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin

M. F. McAuliffe was born & educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, has an Honours degree in English & graduate work in photography, film, & anthropology. In 2002 she co-founded the multi-lingual, award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly with RV Branham, & continues there as co-editor. She made her US debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards, & has since co-authored Fighting Monsters (with Judith Steele, Melbourne, 1998), the artist's book Golems Waiting Redux (with Daniel Duford, Portland, 2011), & supplied the libretto for La Mama Courthouse's production Orpheus: an Australian Tragedy (Carlton, 2000); the text of Crucifix i., along with a photograph, appear in the Yoko Ono-curated installation, Arising, 7 Oct., 2016 through 5 Feb., 2017, at Reykjavik Art Museum. She is currently editing & publishing some titles for Reprobate/GobQ Books. Her most recent book is I'm Afraid of Americans, from shoegaze.