Author, performer, musician solidad decosta once slept with the collected works of William Carlos Williams (Volume I) to get over her father complex. Her work has appeared in Mirage, Shampoo, Fireweed, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. A recipient of the 2008 kari edwards scholarship at Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, when she is not writing sestinas about rioting with foam rubber bricks or writing odes to zombies, she bangs out Brechtian piano improvisations. She is rumored to sleep four hours in five minutes.