Star Black is the author of several books of poetry: THE POPULAR VOTE (Saturnalia Books, 2019), VELLEITY'S SHADE (Saturnalia Books, 2010), WATERWORN, Balefire, Ghostwood and Double Time, as well as a book of collaged texts, October for Idas. Her poems have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present, and 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11. She has taught at The New School, Stony Brook University, has lectured at the Bennington Writers Seminars, and is the co-founder of the KGB Bar Poetry Series in the East Village. She works in New York City as a photographer and visual artist.