Lewis Warsh is the author of two novels, Agnes & Sally
and A Free Man, two books of stories, Money Under the
Table and Touch of the Whip, and numerous books of
poems, including The Origin of the World and Avenue of
Escape. His most recent books are Debtor’s Prison, a
book-length poem in collaboration with video artist Julie
Harrison, and The Angel Hair Anthology, co-edited with
Anne Waldman. He has received grants for his fiction
and poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New York Foundation for the Arts and The Fund for
Poetry. In 1994 he received the James Shestack award
from The American Poetry Review. He is editor and publisher
of United Artists Books and has taught at SUNY Albany,
The New School, Naropa University and The Poetry Project.
He is presently on the faculty of Long Island University in Brooklyn.