Maggie Jaffe is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE: THE SELECTED POEMS OF MAGGIE JAFFE (Red Dragonfly Press, 2014), and FLIC(K)S: POETIC INTERROGATIONS OF AMERICAN CINEMA (Red Dragonfly Press, 2010). Her books 7TH CIRCLE (Cedar Hill Books, 2003) and THE PRISONS (Cedar Hill Books, 2001) won the San Diego Book Award for Poetry. She teaches at San Diego State University in the English and Comparative Literature Department. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a California Arts Council Grant.