Anna Joy Springer is an artist, performer, and cross-genre writer who investigates the weird intersections of sacredness, perversity, and interbeing. 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). An Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego and the Director of its MFA Program, she teaches experimental writing, feminist literature, and graphic texts. She’s played in punk and dyke punk bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow.

Anna Joy Springer is a contributor to Nerve Lantern issues 3 & 9.

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