Amy England received a B.A. in English from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, an M.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Denver. She has taught at National Louis University, Community College of Denver, and Naropa University. She is now with the M.F.A. writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches seminars on poetics, Surrealism, ekphrasis, text and image, and the detective novel in avant garde literature. In addition to her two books of poems with Tupelo Press she is also the co-author of a collection of fiction (Ubar: A Cabinet of Infinite Compartments, with Catherine Kasper and Rikki Ducornet, forthcoming from Leaping Dog Press). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2001, as well as such journals as TriQuarterly, Fence, Chicago Review, and The Denver Quarterly. She is currently translating haiku by the 18th century Japanese poet Yosa Buson, and editing a book on Surrealist games.