Carol Novack is the former recipient of a writer's award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in NYC, and editor of Mad Hatters' Review. Fictions and poems may be found in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Literature, LIT, and Notre Dame Review, and in many anthologies, including "The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets," "Diagram III," and "The &Now Awards: the Best Innovative Writing." Writings in translations may or will be found in French, Italian, Polish and Romanian journals.