About the Author: HARRYETTE MULLEN is a poet and professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned a BA from the University of Texas and a PhD from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her collections of poetry include S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), Recyclopedia (2006), and Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary (2012). Her various honors […]