Susan Briante is the author of Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press 2007) and Utopia Minus (Ahsahta Press 2011). Lately, she can be found translating the work of Uruguayan writer Marosa di Giorgio, writing about industrial ruins and abandoned buildings in American cities, and making poems about the Dow Jones. Briante is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas. She lives in east Dallas with the poet Farid Matuk.