The Forest of Despots’ Daughters

ANNA JOY SPRINGER, is an artist and cross-genre writer who investigates the weird intersection of sacredness, perversity, and relational ethics. She is the author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love (Jaded Ibis, 2011), an illustrated fabulist memoir with soundscape, and The Birdwisher, A Murder Mystery for Very Old Young Adults (Birds of Lace, 2009). She's now making a book-length rebus called Thieves With Tiny Eyes. An Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego and the Director of its MFA Program, she teaches experimental writing, feminist literature & graphic texts. She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2002. She's played in punk and dyke punk bands Blatz, The Gr'ups, and Cypher in the Snow and toured with the all-woman spoken word troupe Sister Spit.