Michael Leong is the author of several books and chapbooks including e.s.p.  (Silenced Press, 2009), Cutting Time with a Knife  (Black Square Editions, 2012); Words on Edge (2012), which won the 9th annual Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Contest; and Fruits and Flowers and Animals and Seas and Lands Do Open  (2015), which won the 2014 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. An additional chapbook is soon forthcoming from Belladonna*.  He has taught literature and creative writing at Rutgers University and Goddard College and will join the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2015.