Christoph Cassammasima

Christophe Casamassima is a founder of Towson ARTS Collective, where he is the Director of Literary Arts and editor of Furniture Press. He also teaches in the English department at Towson University. He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, a trilogy of texts-in-collaboration with numerous authors, dead and alive, which exerts a rigorous effort to play out a musics, a poetics and a shift of authoratative duties to the reader. It includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), and Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009). In his spare time he repurposes unwanted books and promotes creative literacy through poetry writing and bookmaking workshops. He lives and works in Baltimore, MD.