Jim Coppoc

is an award-winning teacher, writer, and performer, and Lecturer in English at Iowa State University. In addition to his creative and scholarly efforts, Coppoc has spent most of his life exploring the many media ofperformance art, having worked as musician, actor, stand-up comic, network radio D.J., and performance poet.

Coppoc has published poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and criticism in dozens of literary journals and anthologies, including The Cortland Review, Barbaric Yawp, Tryst, the Poetry21 supplement to The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, and The Best of Chicago Poetry. Coppoc's first full-length book of poems, Blood, Sex & Prayer, was published by Fractal Edge Press in the summer of 2005, and he is currently revising the manuscript for Reliquary, a book of flash nonfiction due out in 2007.