Bobbie Louise Hawkins was raised in West Texas, studied art in London (the Slade) and taught in British Honduras. She attended University in Tokyo (Jochi Dai Gaku), while acting on the stage and radio. She has published fifteen books of prose and poetry, including Bijoux (Fafalla Press, 2006), The Sanguine Breast of Margaret (North and South Press, London, 1992), My Own Alphabet (Coffee House Press, 1989), and Own Your Own Body (Black Sparrow Press, 1973). She has received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been teaching at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado, since 1987.
